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Pack 7 - Exchange - Coggle Diagram
Pack 7 - Exchange
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Gas Exchange in Fish
Mechanism
Bony fish have 4 pairs of brachial arches supporting gill lamellae - covered by muscular flap called the operculum
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Gas Exchange in Humans
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Lung disease
Emphysema
Symptoms
Shortness of breath, reduced elasticity, chronic cough
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Causes/Risk factors
Cigarette smoking, occupations with dust
Asthma
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Causes/Risk factors
Allergic reaction, affect 10% population
Symptoms
Breathing difficulties, tight feeling in chest, coughing
Fibrosis
Symptoms
Shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, weakness/fatigue
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Mechanism of breathing
Lungs located in thoracic cavity - its walls formed by ribs/intercostal muscles and floor by diaphragm
Inspiration/inhalation - Diaphragm +external intercostal muscles contract increasing volume + decreasing pressure
Expiration/exhalation - diaphragm
relaxes and internal intercostal muscles contract, decreasing volume +increasing pressure
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Gas Exchange in Insects
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Series of pores on thorax + abdomen - Spiracles (can be opened and closed via valves to control water loss)
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