Activity and Your Body – How Exercise Changes Breathing and Heart Rate

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1. Question 1

   Multiple choice

   What happens to your heart rate when you start running?

2. Question 2

   Multiple choice

   Why does your breathing get faster during exercise?

3. Question 3

   Multiple choice

   How can you measure your heart rate?

4. Question 4

   True or false

   Both heart rate and breathing rate return to their resting levels after you stop exercising.

5. Question 5

   Matching

   Match each activity level to the expected heart rate range.

More exercises in this module

• Graph Patterns – Understanding What Heart Rate Data Tells Us

• Active Bodies – Why Moving More Means a Healthier Heart

• Inside the Circulatory System – Blood and Its Pathways

• Breathing In – How Lungs Bring Oxygen into the Body

• What Blood Carries – Oxygen and Nutrients on the Move

• The Heart as a Pump – How It Keeps Blood Moving