The Parts
Another word for the windpipe
What is the trachea?
This is a flap the stops food from going down your windpipe.
What is the epiglottis?
What our lungs do when we exhale.
What is deflate?
Asthma symptoms can be caused by: (name one)
True or False: Children who are repeatedly exposed to secondhand smoke are more likely to develop ear infections and pneumonia.
What is True?
The air sacs found in the lungs.
What are the alveoli?
The hairs that filter the air we inhale.
What are cilia?
As we inhale, air first enters the nose and proceeds to this.
What is the nasal passage or nasal cavity?
The illness that is caused by the inflammation of bronchial tubes.
What is asthma?
When you exercise, your breathing rate and heart rate do this.
What is increases or speeds up?
Another word for the voice box.
What is the larynx?
The substance that moistens are as we inhale it.
What is mucus?
The result of your diaphragm being irritated.
What is a hiccup?
Found on the surfaces of most of the bronchial tubes and in the nose, these "coarse hairs" are damaged by the chemicals in cigarettes.
What is cilia?
This system depends on the respiratory system to bring oxygen into the body so it can be delivered to the muscles.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
The tubes that lead from the trachea to the lungs.
What are the bronchi?
The muscle that contracts as you inhale.
What is the diaphragm?
The three main gases we inhale and exhale.
What are oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen?
Three of the areas of your body that can be affected by smoking and/or using tobacco.
What are your lungs, blood vessels, heart, brain, tongue, mouth, and ears?
True or False: Vaping is an effective way to help someone quit smoking.
What is False?
This side of the lungs has three lobes.
What is the right lung?
The lining that allows our lungs to move freely as we breathe.
What is the pleural membrane?
What is created by the lungs that keeps them inflated.
What is a vacuum? (Remember your bottle?)
Two possible consequences of smoking and/or vaping.
What are lung cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, various body cancers, asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, risk of stroke.
The left lung has a space for the heart called this:
What is the cardiac notch?