Data Analysis:
1. How does your experimental lung capacity compare to your vital lung capacity?
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2. What are three things that might account for any difference between your capacities?
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3. Compare your vital lung capacity with the capacities of the students around you. Are
they the same? _______ Explain your answer.
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4. Aerobic exercise can result in an increase of lung capacity. Suggest a reason for this
increase.
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5. What type of athlete would you think would have the largest lung capacity? Explain your
answer.
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