Structure
This is the main organ for respiration.
What are the Lungs?
It is the medical term for inhalation.
What is inspiration?
Respiration delivers this to all the body's cells.
What is Oxygen?
The lungs are covered by this pleural membrane.
What is visceral pleura?
Air enters through here first.
What is Nose/Mouth?
What is Expiration?
Respiration aims to remove this from the body.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The chest wall is lined by this pleural membrane.
What is parietal pleura?
The Trachea (a.k.a. the windpipe) splits into how many primary bronchi?
How many is two?
This controls your breathing.
What is the Medulla?
Cells need Oxygen to make this. It is also know as your energy.
What is Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)?
This, in the alveoli, reduces surface tension so they don’t collapse
What is Surfactant?
These are tiny air sacs that air enters last and where gas exchange happens.
What are alveoli?
This helps adjust the rhythm of respiration and expiration.
What are the Pons?
Too much carbon dioxide increases your blood's ______.
What is acidity?
They sometimes lack surfactant and need help breathing.
What are premature babies?
These are known as the throat and the voice box and are the second and third pathways (respectively) that air passes through.
What are the Pharynx and the Larynx?
It determines whether Medulla should speed up or slow down.
What are Carbon Dioxide Levels?
This is the measure of acidity or alkalinity of blood.
What is Blood pH?
Gas exchange happens by this– oxygen moves from alveoli to blood, carbon dioxide moves from blood to alveoli.
What is diffusion?