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How is breathing different from respiration?

Important Questions on Breathing and Exchange of Gases

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Priyanka, with her mother, visits the hospital to meet her sick uncle. While talking, her uncle feels some breathing problems. Priyanka, immediately, calls the doctor who arranges oxygen for the patient that saves his life. Which value is shown by Priyanka?
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What is meant by breathing?
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Define ‘breathing rate’. How does the breathing rate in children differ from that in adults?
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How do we breathe? Explain with the help of diagrams.
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How does a human breathe or exchange gases with the air?

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Differentiate between respiration and breathing.
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Sea divers carry oxygen cylinders when they go deep in the sea. Explain why?
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Normal range of breathing rate per minute in an average adult person at rest is
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When we inhale, the air passes through the organs in the following sequence:
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What is meant by “breathing”? Describe the mechanism of breathing in humans.
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Differentiate between Breathing and respiration.
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Why should we breathe through the nose and not through the mouth?
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What causes 'yawning'? What are various situations under which yawning occurs?
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The following are the two pie charts which give the percentage of compositions found in exhaled air and inhaled air.

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Which pie chart is most likely taken from the sample of exhaled air? Explain our answer?

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Why do mountaineers carry oxygen gas cylinders with them?
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Why should we breathe only through our nose?
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What is the difference between breathing and respiration?
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 We can hold our breath only for a few _____.
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What happens to the breathing rate when a person is tired, bored, feel sleepy or drowsy? How does yawning improve the situation?
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Complete the analogy. 

_____ : skin :: Fish : gills.

(It belongs to the phylum Annelida).