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It's not that you produce more carbon dioxide after exercise, it's just that you need more oxygen to make up for the energy you lost DURING the exercise. When you exercise, your body undergoes both aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration. During anaerobic respiration, your body creates lactose, so after you exercise, the oxygen that you breathe in goes to turn the lactose ultimately into glucose.

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How does exercise affect the amount of carbon released from the lungs?

Your body is an engine that uses fuel (food) to produce energy for you to do exercise. The fuel contains carbon from the carbohydrates you eat, and the body uses oxygen from the air to do a chemical reaction that combines the carbon with the oxygen to produce energy plus carbon dioxide. If you do exercise, you use more fuel and more oxygen, and you produce more carbon dioxide. The body has sensors that detect excess carbon dioxide in the blood, and they make you breathe faster to get rid of it.


Why does oxygen decrease after exercise and carbon dioxide increase?

During exercise, your body uses more oxygen to produce ATP for energy. This leads to a decrease in oxygen levels in the blood. As a byproduct of this increased oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide is produced and accumulates in the blood, leading to an increase in carbon dioxide levels.


What happens to the respiratory system when exercise takes place?

Your lungs will have to work harder to provide oxygen and also remove carbon dioxide also your muscle cells in the body will use up more and more oxygen and produce more carbon dioxide.


How is the respiratory system affected by exercise in the short term?

The respiratory system is affected by exercise because when doing exercise the muscles need more oxygen and produce more carbon dioxide so the heart has to work quicker and you need to breathe faster and deeper to let the carbon dioxide exit quicker and the oxygen enter and be pumped around quicker.


Do cars or houses produce more carbon dioxide?

Cars produce much more than houses.


Does the oxygen burned from fire turn into carbon dioxide?

Not on its own, and it depends on what is burning. A fire can only produce carbon dioxide if the substance burning with the oxygen contains carbon. And even then, if there are other elements, you will get more substances as products. Carbon will produce carbon dioxide and usually some carbon monoxide as well. Hydrogen will produce water vapor. Sulfur will produce sulfur dioxide. Magnesium will produce magnesium oxide.


When you exercise why do you respire more?

When you exercise, your muscles require more oxygen to produce energy. This increased demand for oxygen leads to faster and deeper breathing to deliver more oxygen to the muscles and remove carbon dioxide, which is a byproduct of energy production. This process, called respiration, helps provide the necessary energy for muscle contraction during physical activity.


How does digesting food produce carbon dioxide?

The digesting of food is more likely to cause methane than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is liberated when dissolved food is used in biological processes at the cellular level as carbon compounds combine with oxygen to produce energy.


What do big engines produce?

they produce more carbon dioxidedont get a 4x4 they produce ten imes more carbon dioxide than an Audi tt sport turbo with a v12 engine


Why is there less carbon dioxide breathed out when exercising?

During exercise, your body produces more carbon dioxide as a result of increased metabolism. However, the increased breathing rate during exercise allows for more efficient removal of carbon dioxide from the body, preventing an accumulation of CO2 in the bloodstream. This helps maintain the balance of carbon dioxide levels in the body despite the increased production during exercise.


What effect does exercise have on the amount of carbon dioxide released by the blood?

When you exercise the energy demand is higher and so respiration rate is higher. Respiration = Glucose + Oxygen --> Water + Carbon dioxide (+energy). So higher respiration rate, more carbon dioxide


Why is there more carbon dioxide in the winter?

During winter, there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because plants go dormant and release less oxygen through photosynthesis, while human activities like heating and transportation produce more carbon dioxide.