“Take a Breath” Science Quiz
February 8, 2023
1) How many times a day do you breathe?
Answer: It does that about 20
THOUSAND times a day, using air
pressure to bring air in and out of
your body.
2) What happened to the balloon when you pumped the air out of the vacuum chamber.
Answer: It got bigger, when we pumped ALL the air out by useing the plunger thing.
3) When you breathe in and your lungs get bigger, does that make the air in your lungs high pressure or low pressure?
Answer: When you breathe in, the muscles, in your chest expand your lungs, making them bigger.
4) What happened to the balloon when you undid the clip and let air back into the chamber?
Answer: The balloon got smaller, when we undid the clip.
5) Do your muscles make your lungs bigger or smaller when you breathe out?
Answer: Your muscles squeeze your lungs to make them smaller.
6) When you breathe out, is the air in your lungs high or low pressure?
Answer: This high pressure air rushes out to the air that’s less packedtogether outside your body.
7) When the air pressure between 2 places isn’t balanced, what happens to the high pressure (or packed tight) air?
Answer: Well that’s what air does too, itmoves from one place to another
until both are equally full.
Withbreathing, that means it moves
between the outside air and your
lungs. 🙂
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