The Respiratory System
The Exchange of Gases in the Body
How Our Diaphragm Works
Parts of the Respiratory System
General Questions
100
Which parts of the body does air enter?
What are the nose and the mouth?
100
Where does gas exchange take place?
What is the alveoli?
100
What is breathing out called?
What is exhalation?
100
What parts of the respiratory system are the yellow lines pointing to?
What are the mouth and nose?
100
What does the respiratory system take in?
What is oxygen?
200
What is the long tube made of muscle and cartilage that air travels into after entering the body?
What is the trachea?
200
Oxygen in the alveoli enters the blood through what?
What are the capillaries?
200
What is breathing in called?
What is inhalation?
200
What part of the respiratory system is the yellow line pointing to?
What is the trachea?
200
What does the respiratory system release?
What is carbon dioxide?
300
What are the two smaller tubes that the trachea splits into in the chest and that take air to each of the lungs?
What are bronchi?
300
What type of blood travels toward the heart and the rest of the body?
What is oxygenated blood?
300
Does the diaphragm contract or relax to flatten and make more room for the lungs to expand?
Contracts
300
What part of the respiratory system is the yellow line pointing to?
What is the diaphragm?
300
What is the skeletal muscle that contracts to take in oxygen and relaxes to release air from the lungs?
What is the diaphragm?
400
What are the smaller branches that the bronchi split into?
What are bronchioles?
400
Cells combine the oxygen traveling the body with nutrients to produce energy. This creates what waste gas?
What is carbon dioxide?
400
When the diaphragm relaxes, does is create more or less space in for the lungs?
Less space
400
What parts of the respiratory system are the yellow lines pointing to?
What are the bronchus and the bronchiole?
400
What are the tiny blood vessels that cover the alveoli called?
What are capillaries?
500
What are the air sacs on each bronchiole called?
What are alveoli?
500
What type of blood is carried in the capillaries with carbon dioxide after the oxygen is used to produce energy?
What is deoxygenated blood?
500
What three parts expand and contract during inhalation and exhalation?
What are the lungs, ribcage, and diaphragm?
500
What is 1 pointing to? What is 2 pointing to?
1) What is the alveolus?
2) What is the capillary?
500
What is common in children and causes coughing, sneezing and breathlessness?
What are respiratory tract infections (RTIs)?