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Heartbeat and Breathing – Exercise 2

Understand how breathing and heartbeat change when we are active.

Module

Classifying Living Things & Body Overview

Age

Age 7

Duration

8 min

Questions

5

What's in this exercise

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  1. Question 1

    Multiple choice

    What happens when we breathe out?

  2. Question 2

    Multiple choice

    Roughly how many times does a healthy heart beat per minute?

  3. Question 3

    Multiple choice

    Why do our lungs breathe faster when we run?

  4. Question 4

    True or false

    When we exercise, both our breathing and heartbeat speed up.

  5. Question 5

    Matching

    Match each activity to what happens with heartbeat and breathing.

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