Part 5- Essay: Extended
Responses
1. The main component that our body is looking for
when we breathe in is oxygen. When we breathe out,
we exhale carbon dioxide. What happens to the
oxygen inside the body and how does it get turned
into carbon dioxide? Think about external, internal
and cellular respiration.
2. How would smoking affect your personally? How
would it affect the activities that you currently
participate in? Discuss how your life would change
if you made a choice to smoke. Be sure to include
specific things that you do that would be effected.
Also, make sure to list short term and long term
effects of smoking that you want to avoid by not
smoking.
3. Once we chew and swallow food, the journey is
not over. Eventually the food you swallowed makes
its way to the bloodstream for energy. Describe the
process of digestion from swallowing until that food
gets to your bloodstream. Be sure to mention the
following digestion parts in your answer: stomach,
esophagus, small intestine, liver and gall bladder.
4. At different points our blood was depicted as red
and blue in pictures. What does that mean? What
cause the change in our blood? Explain what
happens to the blood during it’s trip around the
circulatory system. Be sure to include the following
parts in your answer: heart, aorta, lungs, muscles,
vena cava.