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Edexcel International A Level Biology past-paper questions on 7.3.4 Exercise and spirometer traces, 2019–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available.
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All 10 questions on Exercise and spirometer traces, as a list
- June 2025, Unit 5, Q4(c) (6 marks): Ageing affects different organ systems. Three systems affected by ageing are the: • cardiovascular system • breathing and gas exchange system • brain and nervou
- June 2025, Unit 6, Q4(b) (9 marks): Devise a detailed method, including how you would control and monitor important variables to provide quantitative results. (9)
- January 2025, Unit 5, Q6(c) (6 marks): Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the biggest causes of death in the world. In 2021, nearly 25% of all deaths were attributed to CVD. Exercise can help pre
- January 2024, Unit 5, Q6(b) (6 marks): Exercise has many benefits for the health and wellbeing of an individual. An investigation was carried out on non‑athletes and athletes. All participants did a
- October 2023, Unit 6, Q2(b) (2 marks): The graph shows a spirometer trace from one volunteer breathing at rest. 5 4 3 Volume of air / dm3 2 P 1 Q 0 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Time / s The line PQ indi
- June 2023, Unit 5, Q3(b)(ii) (2 marks): The tidal volume for a resting talapoin monkey was found to be 40 cm3. The minute ventilation is the volume of gas inhaled or exhaled from the lungs in one minu
- January 2022, Unit 5, Q7(a) (3 marks): Investigation of the breathing of a patient with AAT deficiency found that the: resting tidal volume (VT) was 500 cm3 • dead space (DS) was 150 cm3 • • resting
- October 2021, Unit 6, Q2(a)(i) (1 mark): Calculate the mean breathing rate for this person. (1) breaths min–1
- October 2021, Unit 6, Q2(a)(ii) (2 marks): Estimate the mean respiratory minute ventilation for this person. (2) dm3 min–1
- October 2021, Unit 6, Q2(b)(i) (2 marks): State one abiotic and one biotic variable that could affect this investigation. (2) Abiotic variable Biotic variable
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