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Gas Exchange

Gas Exchange. Topic 6.4. Assessment Statements. 6.4.1 Distinguish between ventilation , gas exchange and cell respiration . 6.4.2 Explain the need for a ventilation system. 6.4.3 Describe the features of alveoli that adapt them to gas exchange.

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Gas Exchange

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  1. Gas Exchange Topic 6.4

  2. Assessment Statements 6.4.1 Distinguish between ventilation, gas exchange and cell respiration. 6.4.2 Explain the need for a ventilation system. 6.4.3 Describe the features of alveoli that adapt them to gas exchange. 6.4.4 Draw and label a diagram of the ventilation system, including trachea, lungs, bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli. 6.4.5 Explain the mechanism of ventilation of the lungs in terms of volume and pressure changes caused by the internal and external intercostal muscles, the diaphragm and abdominal muscles.

  3. Overview • Lungs act with heart and blood vessels to supply body cells with oxygen and remove carbon dioxide • Cell respiration – process which requires oxygen to break down bonds within glucose molecules to release energy and store it as ATP and carbon dioxide to be released • Ventilation – repeat filling and emptying our lungs with air • Gas exchange – diffusion of gases (oxygen, carbon dioxide)

  4. Locations of gas exchange • In lungs where oxygen moves from the air of the lungs into the bloodstream (and carbon dioxide moves in the opposite direction) • In a capillary bed elsewhere in the body where the opposite gas exchange occurs – oxygen diffuses out of the bloodstream and into a body cell (and carbon dioxide diffuses out of the body cell into the capillary bed)

  5. Why we need a ventilation system • Our bodies are thick • Diffusion of oxygen from outside environment directly to all cells is impossible • To ensure that the concentration of the respiratory gases within the lungs encourages the diffusion of each gas in a direction that is beneficial to the body

  6. Adaptations of alveoli that allow efficient gas exchange

  7. Anatomy of the human respiratory system

  8. Mechanism of ventilation • Based on the inverse relationship between pressure and volume • An increase in volume will lead to a decrease in pressure; a decrease in volume will lead to an increase in pressure

  9. Mechanism of inspiration • Diaphragm contracts and at the same time the abdominal muscles and intercostal muscles help to raise the rib cage. Collectively, all of these actions act to increase the volume of the thoracic cavity. • Pressure inside thoracic cavity decreases. This leads to less pressure ‘pushing on’ the passive lung tissue.

  10. The lung tissue increases its volume because there is less pressure exerted on it • This leads to a decrease in pressure inside the lungs, also known as a partial vacuum • Air comes in through your open mouth or nasal passages to counter the partial vacuum within the lungs and fills alveoli with air Note: These steps are reversed for an expiration.

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