Organs
Name two places where air enters the respiratory system.
The mouth and nose
Your respiratory system does this around 22,000x/day
What is breaths in.
An addictive stimulant found in cigarettes
What is nicotine
Windpipe that directs air to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
Which disease causes damaged airways to narrow?
What is Asthma?
The main muscle for your respiratory system
What is the diaphragm.
Who breathes more every minute--small children or adults?
Adults--as you age the number of times you breathe every minute should decrease.
Name a disease caused by smoking
lung cancer, emphysema, COPD
Contains the vocal cords
What is larynx.
An inflammation of the bronchial tubes
What is bronchitis?
What is the difference between bronchi and bronchioles?
They are both branching tubes of the lower respiratory system, but bronchi are two large tubes and the bronchioles are smaller sized airways leading to the alveoli.
Two actions that are completely involuntary.
What is coughing, hiccups, sneezing, and breathing(mostly involuntary)
What is a reason to stop smoking?
To keep your lines healthy, to help prevent cancer, so you don't get addicted to the nicotine, because it is expensive, because it smells bad...
Dome shaped muscle that separates the lungs from the abdomen
What is the diaphragm?
Viral infection that includes fever, chills, and cough. Also known as the flu.
What is influenza?
What is the epiglottis and what does it do?
It is a flap of tissue that covers the trachea during eating/drinking so food doesn't go down the wrong pipe
What is the role of a sneeze?
To clear particles from the nasal cavity?
How does smoking affect cilia?
It damages them so they can not move and clear your nasal cavity.
Tubes that branch off the trachea to the lungs
What are Bronchi?
Disease that causes inflammation in the alveoli?
What is pneumonia?
Tiny hairs that clean the air.
What are cilia?
The two gasses that are exchanged during respiration.
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What should you do if someone offers you a cigarette??
What is say NO!
Tiny air sacs in the lungs where carbon dioxide is exchanged with oxygen.
What are alveoli?
Tissue in the lungs are destroyed by a growth of a tumor.
What is lung cancer?