Respiratory System Facts
What gas do we breathe in?
Oxygen.
Spongy organs that expand to fill with air
Lungs.
Blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body cells.
Red blood cells.
A hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
The Heart.
This can cause several different lung diseases and lung cancer.
Smoking.
What gas do we breathe out?
Carbon dioxide.
A tube in your throat that connects to the bronchi.
Trachea.
Blood cells that perform the function of destroying disease-causing microorganisms.
White blood cells.
The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
Blood.
Is any of your blood blue?
No!
These are the main organs in the respiratory system?
Lungs.
Two small tubes that connect the trachea to the lungs.
Bronchi
The part of your blood that clots and stops you from bleeding.
Platelets.
Blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart.
Arteries.
The reason blood has a metallic taste is due to the presence of this.
Iron, or Hemoglobin.
What is the main function of the Respiratory System?
Gas exchange.
Tiny branches of air tubes in the lungs that are a continuation of the bronchi.
Bronchioles.
What are the four main parts of the circulatory system?
1. Heart
2. Blood
3. Arteries
4 Veins
Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart.
Veins.
When people have this, it causes their bronchi to become swollen, which makes their airways smaller.
Asthma or an asthma attack.
Which part of the respiratory system is the site of gas exchange?
Alevoli.
Tiny sacs that are at the end of the bronchioles
Alveoli.
What are the four main components of your blood?
1. Red blood cells
2. White blood cells
3. Platelets
4. Plasma
Microscopic vessels through which exchanges take place between the blood and cells of the body.
Capillaries.
The number of times the average heart will beat each day.
115,000