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These are hollow areas in your head. They warm, moisturize and filters air from foreign object.
The part of the respiratory system that is connected to the nose and mouth and is shared with the digestive system.
Pharynx (Throat)
Commonly called the windpipe, this structure is strengthened by rings of cartilage.
trachea
The average size of your heart is the size of a..?
Fist
name 3 categories of blood vessels
veins, arteries and capillaries
The main part of the circulatory system.
heart
Lower chambers of the heart
Right and Left Atrium
This is a flap that covers the windpipe and helps keep food and water from entering the lungs.
Epiglotis
What is the addictive substance found in cigarettes?
Nicotine
What carries the oxygen across your body?
Red blood cells
What are the tiny balloon-like sacs that look like bunches of grapes where carbon dioxide in the blood is exchanged for oxygen?
Alveoli
A from of cancer in which any of the white blood cells are produced excessively and abnormally
Leukemia
What is the number one cause of lung disease/damage?
smoking
What is the function of Red Blood Cells?
ransport oxygen to the cells and carbon dioxide from the cells.
Bones that protect the lungs
the Rib cage
Upper chambers of the heart
Right and Left Ventricle
This happens when something irritates your throat or airways
cough
Describe the function of white blood cells.
To fight off foreign invaders and pathogens.
Which type of blood vessel has a 'pulse'?
artery
Blood vessels that return blood to the heart
Veins
True or false: you can change the size of your heart
True - like any muscle, exercise with strengthen and increase its size and capacity
These blood vessels carry deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.
The pulmonary arteries
Where is most of your blood made?
in the bone marrow
Name two thing that nose hairs do.
1. Keeps pathogens out of the nose
2. Warms the air going in
What is secondhand smoke?
You are not smoking, but you breath in the smoke or vapor from someone who is smoking