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Respiration/Muscles – Study Guide
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What happens to your diaphragm and ribs during inspiration and expiration
Be able to identify the different parts of the respiratory system on a
diagram
Know what bronchitis and emphysema are
Where gas exchange happens in your lungs
Where and what your “voice box “ is
How oxygen and carbon dioxide are transported through your blood stream
Where the chemoreceptors relay information about respiration too (it’s a
part of your brain that rhymes with redulla oplongata)
What happens when you get lung cancer
How smoking affects respiration
How does oxygen get from your larynx to your blood stream
How does the body increase breathing rate
How does oxygen move out of the blood stream
What does carbonic anhydrase do
Know these definitions:
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Cardiac muscle
Smooth muscle
Tendon
Tetanus
Skeletal muscles
Creatine phosphate
Myofilaments
Actin
Myosin
Fast/slow twitch muscle fibres
Antagonistic muscles