Health
Diseases
Lower Respiratory System
Upper Respiratory System
Functions
100
What you breathe in when you breathe in someone else's smoke.
What is second hand smoke?
100
A tumor in the lungs. About 140,000 Americans die from this disease each year.
What is lung cancer?
100
The muscle that allows us to inhale and exhale.
What is the diaphragm?
100
Long tube supported by cartilage that is also known as the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
100
When air passes through the respiratory system to deliver oxygen to the body.
What is inhale?
200
A colorless, odorless gas produced when substances are burned.
What is carbon monoxide?
200
An irritation of the breathing passages which may be clogged with mucus.
What is bronchitis?
200
The smaller tubes that come off the bronchial tubes.
What are the bronchioles?
200
The voicebox. Located at the top of the trachea and underneath the epiglottis.
What is the larynx?
200
How carbon dioxide is expelled from the body.
What is exhale?
300
A dark, sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns.
What is tar?
300
A serious disease that destroys lung tissue. Common in elderly smokers.
What is emphysema?
300
Large delicate tubes that carry air into the tiny branches and smaller cells of the lungs.
What are bronchial tubes?
300
Air moves from the nose downward into this part of the respiratory system. It is also a passageway for food.
What is the pharynx?
300
Protects the trachea and keeps it from collapsing.
What is cartilage?
400
The dangerous, addictive chemical found in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
400
A common, chronic disorder that causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow, leading to shortness of breath and wheezing.
What is asthma?
400
Tiny sacs of lung tissue that are specialized for the movement of gasses between air and blood.
What are alveoli?
400
A flap of tissue that seals off the windpipe and prevents food from entering.
What is the epiglottis?
400
When oxygen passes into blood cells and carbon dioxide passes into the alveoli.
What is gas exchange?
500
The microscopic like hairs that filter and clean air.
What is cilia?
500
COPD stands for.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
500
Works with the alveoli to perform gas exchange.
What are capillaries?
500
Contains many blood vessels. Warm blood flowing through these vessels warms the air.
What is the nasal passage?
500
The process of ____________________ occurs at the alveoli; when oxygen is inhaled and carbon dioxide is exhaled.
What is respiration?
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