Respiratory
Oxygen enters the body here
What is nose and mouth
We take this in when we inhale
What is oxygen
What does the hair in your nose do?
What is traps dust, pollutants, viruses
What does mucus in your nasal passage do?
What is traps dust, pollutants, viruses so they do not travel into the lungs.
Muscle most responsible for your breathing
What is diaphragm
Name 2 reasons smoking is bad?
What is lung cancer, damage vocal cords, decreased oxygen in the blood etc.
What are the bronchi?
What is 2 branches that take oxygen to the lungs.
What is respiratory system
Disease that makes it very hard to breath at times
Asthma
This is what colds are caused by
What are viruses
How do cartilage rings around your trachea help you?
What is keeps your trachea from collapsing
The holes in your head are called…
What is sinus cavities
This is the addictive part in cigarettes
What is nicotine
Some have a greater lung capacity than others. Meaning they can breath in larger volumes of air. T
True or False?
What is True. Known as greater lung capacity
What do we call the act of manually compressing the abdomen forcing air and whatever blockage out
What is Heimlich Maneuver named after Dr. Henry Jay Heimlich
What determines your voices volume?
What is size of vocal cords. Men—>longer, thicker Women—>shorter, thinner
What determines your voices pitch?
What is to make high pitched sounds you tense up your vocal cords.
What are thin strips of tissue in your larynx called?
What is vocal cords.
How does the oxygen in your lungs get into your blood?
What is alveoli
This is what makes it hard for someone with asthma to breathe
What is the muscle around the bronchioles contracts and narrows them and inflammation can cause the tissue inside the bronchioles to swell, narrowing them further by reducing the space air travels
What are cilia?
What is tiny whips or motors that are constantly moving particles toward your mouth to clear the airway
What is the role of the conchae?
What is makes sure the air that passes through the nasal cavity is cleaned, moistened and brought to the correct temperature
Why do your ears pop on an airplane
What is happens in nasopharynx because the middle ear is connected by a tiny tube to the nasopharynx and when your ears need to equalize the pressure between your middle ear and the atmosphere, your ears pop
This is when you tighten your abdominal muscles to further reduce the volume of your chest cavity, which forces even more out of your lungs.
Ex. Blowing out birthday candles
What is forceful expiration
Your lungs hold about this many alveoli
What is 600 million Very tiny but the most important part of the respiratory system by getting oxygen into the bloodstream and carbon dioxide out