Abstract

Every cell in your body needs oxygen, blood, nutrients and many other key things to ensure that the cell survives. When doing exercise your body reacts much different than when you are at rest. Everything is hightened, from breathing to how fast your heart is beating. And the more you exercise the more your systems work and need each other to keep your body going. By doing this experiment we see how each system interacts with each other. The circulatory system is connected to almost every system in the body. However the circulatory system and the respiratory system work closely together. The heart, lungs and blood vessels all work together as part of the circulatory system.

The objective of this lab is to measure the bodies metabolic mechanisms in response to different
levels of exercise: pulse, respiration rate, blood pressure, temperature (internal and
external) and sweat. These measurements will be taken various times at rest, during medium activity and high activity. For each level of activity a mean will be calculated from all the results of the students in the class. The results of these means will be an indicator as to wether or not the hypothesis is correct or not.