Zusammenfassung der Ressource
B3
- Exchange of materials
- Osmosis
- Diffusion of water
down a concentration
through a
semi-permeable
membrane
- Causes net water
movement into and
out of cells
- Active transport
- Against
concentration
gradient
- Uses energy from respiration
- Cells absorb ions, sugar and salt this way
- Sports drinks
- Contains
sugars
and ions
- Reseach shows that water is as effecive
for normal amounts of exercise
- Replaces sugars, ions and water lost
in exercise and through sweating
- Lungs
- Large surface area, thin walls and steep
concentratn gradients all help with the diffusion of
oxygen.
- Alveoli increase the surface area so that there is
more space for diffusion to happen across
- Adapted to make gaseous exchange as efficient as possible
- The intercostal muscles move the ribcage
up and out and your diaphragm moves
down making your thorax bigger, this
makes your lungs expand
- Breathing aids
- There are negative pressure breathing aids such as the iron lung
and positive pressure breathing aids which force air into your body
- All breathing aid have
advantages and
disadvantages
- The gut
- Villi and microvilli give the gut a large suface area
- Villi have a good blood supply close to the surface
- Exchange in plants
- Plants have stomata
which allows them to
get carbon dioxide
- Most water and ions needed are
absorbed through the roots
- Transpiration is loosing
water vapour through the
plants stomata
- Trasporting materials
- Circulatory system
- Blood vessels, the heart and the blood
- Humans have a
double circulation
- The heart pumps blood around the body
- Valves make sure blood flows in the right dirrection
- Arteries, veins and capillaries are all types of blood vessels
- Damaged heart valves can be replaced and stents can reopen blood vessels
- Transport in the blood
- Blood plasma transports dissolved food
molecules, carbon dioxide and urea.
- Red blood cells carry oxygen
- White blood cells are
part of the immune
system
- Platelets are used in clotting of blood
- Artificial
- Artificial blood can be used to
replace real blood that is lost
- No blood group matching is needed for artificial blood
- Artificial bood is very expensive and doesnt carry much oxygen
- Artificial hearts are good as there is no wait for a donor
- Artificial hearts can cause problems with blood clotting
- Transport systems in plants
- Flowering plants have
seperate transport
systems
- Xylem tissue transports water and mineral ions
- Phloem tissue
transports dissolved
sugars from the
leaves to the rest of
the plants
- Keeping internal conditions constant
- Controling internal conditions
- Internal conditions must be kept constant
to maintain the efficient use of organs and
to prevent enzymes being denatured
- Carbon dioxide
leaves the body
through the lungs
- Urea is produced in the liver
when excess amino acids
are broken down
- Kidneys
- Kidneys are important for
homeostasis
- Kidneys produce urine by
filtering the blood
- Excess ions, water and
urea are removed in
urine
- Kidney replacements
- Dialysis does the job of a kidney but is not as effective
- Dialysis machines restore
levels of dissolved
substances to normal levels
- In kidney transplants, the old kidneys are left in the body
- Body temperature
- Body temperature is controlled in the
thermoregulatory center in the brain
- Body temperature must be kept at the
level in which enzymes work best
- Blood vessels dilate and constrict to control
blood flow to the skin and therefore heat loss
- Shivering heats up the body as blood
goes to the muscles to move
- Blood glucose
- Controlled by the
pancreas
- Insulin allows glucose to move
from the blood into cells
- Type 1 diabetes can be treated with
injections of insulin before meals
- Type 2 diabetes can be treated with
a careful diet and exercise
- How humans can affect the environment
- Population explosion
- The human
population is growing
rapidly and the
standard of living is
increasing
- We are using non renewable resources, taking
over land and producing loads of waste
- Polution
- Toxic chemicals can pollute the
land, rivers and the air
- Carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxide is realeased when fossil
fuels are burnt
- Acid rain
damages trees
- Air pollution contributes to global warming
- Deforestation and peat destruction
- Large scale deforestation has
led to an increase in cabon
dioxide in the atmosphere
- The destruction of peat bogs releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
- Global warming
- Carbon dioxde and methane levels are rising which is
causing an increasd greenhouse effect
- Global warming is the increase in
temperature of the surface of the earth
- Global warming causes climate change, rise in
sea levels and loss of biodiversity
- Biofuels
- Biofuels can be made
using crops and
fermenting them to
make ethanol
- Biogas can be made by the anaerobic
fermentation of plants and waste
containing carbohydrates
- Biogas generators can be small to supply a family or big enough to supply a whole city
- Sustainable food production
- Increasing efficiency of food production
can be done by decreasing the number
of stages in the food chain
- If you keep
animals warm
and stop them
moving then
they waste
less energy
- Controlling net size and setting limits for the
amount of fish that can caught conserves
fish stocks
- The fungus fusarium is grown in sugar
syrup to produce mycroprotein foods
- Environmental issues
- Methods to produce food and water can have short and
long term effects on the environment
- There is alot of data on effects on
the environment