Vocabulary
True or false
Respiratory System
Respiratory System 2
Review
100
Medulla
What is the lowest part of the brain which controls breathing and the heartbeat.
100
The ear is made mostly of cartilage.
What is true.
100
Cilia
What are tiny hair-like projections on certain cells.
100
In the lungs the blood does this.
What is takes on a fresh supply of oxygen and gives off waste carbon dioxide.
100
to expel from
What is excrete
200
Tendon
What attaches bones together.
200
The spinal cord is a thick nerve cord in the backbone.
What is true.
200
Mucus
What is thick, slimy lubricating fluid.
200
The two main organs in the chest cavity.
What are the heart and lungs.
200
Holds the the cell together
What is the membrane.
300
Cerebrum
What is the center of intelligence.
300
The sensory nerves cause the muscles to respond to a message.
What is false. It is the motor nerve that arouse the muscles to action.
300
Trachea
What is the windpipe.
300
The main organ of the respiratory system.
What is the lungs.
300
What all living things are made of.....
What are cells.
400
Impulse
What is nerve message sent over a nerve fiber.
400
Air is cleaned, warmed, and moistened by the larynx.
What is false. This is done by the nose.
400
Diaphragm
What is thick muscle below the chest.
400
The vocal cords are located here.
What is the larynx.
400
Heredity is controlled by this part of the cell.
What is the nucleus.
500
Trachea
What is the wind pipe.
500
The esophagus is the trap door at the top of the larynx.
What is false. This is the epiglottis.
500
Exhaling
What is breathing out.
500
By the time air reaches the lungs it is the temperature of the air
What is 98 degrees.
500
Describe in detail what happens from the time you burn your finger until you jerk your hand away from the heat.
What is .... A message of pain travels through the sensory nerves in the finger and hand, up the arm to the spinal cord. The spinal cord then sends a message back through the motor nerve down the arm to the muscles and the arm jerks away from the red hot object,
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