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GCSE Respiration

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  • Q1
    What are the reactants in aerobic respiration?
    Glucose and Oxygen
    Carbon Dioxide and Water
    Glucose and Water
    Oxygen and Water
    30s
  • Q2
    What are the products of aerobic respiration?
    Carbon Dioxide and Water
    Glucose and Carbon Dioxide
    Glucose and Oxygen
    Water and Oxygen
    30s
  • Q3
    What is the purpose of respiration?
    Produce glucose
    Produce energy
    Release energy
    Make energy
    30s
  • Q4
    Where does aerobic respiration take place?
    Ribosomes
    Cytoplasm
    Mitochondria
    Nucleus
    30s
  • Q5
    Which of these is not a use of the energy released by respiration?
    Maintaining body temperature
    Gas Exchange in the lungs
    Making large molecules from smaller molecules
    Muscle contraction
    30s
  • Q6
    Why do muscles require more energy during exercise?
    They are moving more
    They are contracting more
    They are respiring more
    30s
  • Q7
    Which of these changes do not help get more oxygen to the muscles during exercise?
    Increased sweating
    Increased breathing rate
    Increased heart rate
    Increased stroke volume
    30s
  • Q8
    What is the formula for Cardiac Output (CO)?
    CO = HR + SV
    CO=HR x SV
    CO = HR / SV
    CO = HR - SV
    30s
  • Q9
    Which of these is true of anaerobic respiration?
    It releases less energy from glucose than aerobic respiration
    It releases the same amount of energy from glucose than aerobic respiration.
    It releases more energy from glucose than aerobic respiration
    30s
  • Q10
    What is the product or products of anaerobic respiration in YEAST?
    Ethanol and Carbon Dioxide
    Carbon Dioxide and Water
    Lactic Acid
    30s
  • Q11
    What is the oxygen debt
    The extra volume of oxygen needed at the start of exercise
    The extra volume of oxygen needed at the end of exercise to make more glucose in muscles
    The extra volume of oxygen needed at the end of exercise to remove lactic acid from the muscles
    The extra volume of oxygen needed at the end of exercise to cool you down
    30s
  • Q12
    What does the liver do with any extra lactic acid after exercise?
    Convert it to protein
    Convert it to glucose
    Break it down to urea
    Convert it to fat
    30s
  • Q13
    What does the liver do with excess protein in the blood
    Store it
    Convert it to glucose
    Convert it to fat
    Break it down to urea
    30s
  • Q14
    What is the definition of metabolism?
    The most important reaction in a cell or organism
    All of the chemical reactions in a cell or an organism
    Another word for respiration
    How fast we burn our food
    30s

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