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Title: Ventilation - AQA AS Level Biology
Description: As title describes, concise notes covering Ventilation under chapter 6 of the kerboodle AS level (new( spec Biology.

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Ventilation 
The Pathway to the Lungs 
Mouth 
Larynx 
Trachea 
Bronchi 
Bronchioles 
Alveoli 
 

The Mechanism of Breathing 
Inspiration (inhalation) ­ Your external intercostal muscles contract, and your internal intercostal 
muscles contract, causing the ribs to be pulled upwards and outwards
...
 This has the net effect of 
increasing the volume of the thorax, and so of the lungs
...
 
 
Expiration (exhalation) ­ The converse paragraph
...
  
 
Antagonistic Muscles (not a necessary definition just useful to know) ­ muscles are antagonistic 
to one another when one contracts and the other relaxes
...
 
 
Forced Exhalation (“”) ­ expiration sometimes related to sport or exercise, this is a situation in 
which the internal intercostal muscles contract more than they usually do in order to increase 
pulmonary pressure faster, to force air out of the lungs faster
Title: Ventilation - AQA AS Level Biology
Description: As title describes, concise notes covering Ventilation under chapter 6 of the kerboodle AS level (new( spec Biology.