Respiratory System
These are hollow areas in your head. They warm, moisturize and filter air.
What are Sinus cavities/Nasal cavities
The name of the large muscle that pulls air into the lungs
What is the diaphragm?
The addictive substance found in cigarettes
What is Nicotine?
When inhaling the ribs move in these directions?
What are up and out.
Muscles between the ribs that raise and lower the ribs.
What are intercostal muscles?
The Respiratory System's job
What is to deliver oxygen to the bloodstream and to remove carbon dioxide and waste?
The main organ of the respiratory system
What are the Lungs?
The number one cause of lung disease/damage
What is Smoking?
During exhaling, the diaphram does this
What is domes up?
Volume of air you inhale with each breath during normal breathing.
What is tidal volume?
True or False: Diffusion happens in the alveoli.
TRUE
The large tube that connect the larynx to the bronchi?
What is the trachea?
What is vaping?
The volume of air you inhale with each breath during normal breathing is called this.
What is tidal volume?
Volume of air left in your lungs after breathing out.
What is residual volume?
Commonly called the windpipe, this structure is strengthened by rings of cartilage.
What is the trachea?
The two tubes that lead from the bottom of the trachea to each lung
What are the bronchi?
A tightening and thickening of the bronchial tubes, making the air passages inflamed and hard to breathe.
What is asthma?
Physical activity causes breathing rate to do this
What is increase?
The maximum volume of air you can exhale out is called this
These air passages diverge from the windpipe at the bottom of the trachea.
What are the bronchi?
The tiny balloon-like sacs that look like brocolli where carbon dioxide in the blood is exchanged for oxygen?
What are Alveoli?
A harmful proliferation (growth) of cells in the lungs causing tumors and damaging growths.
What is lung cancer?
It is the movement of air in and out of your lungs. It is a physical process.
What is breathing?
During inhalation what does the diaphragm do?
It contracts or flattens.
The one-cell thick passage for blood around the alveoli is called this
What is a capillary?
The smaller air passages that branch off each bronchi within the lungs?
What are the Bronchioles?
The inflammation of the bronchial tubes, causing people to cough up thick mucus.
What is bronchitis?
List in order from inhalation what the pathway of air is (ending with exhalation)
What is: 1. nasal cavity/mouth 2. trachea 3. bronchi 4. bronchioles 5. alveoli 6. exhalation
What is exhalation?