Miscellaneous (last Question worth OVER 9000 POINTS)
100
Organs in which gas exchange occurs and air is inhaled to and exhaled from.
What are the lungs?
100
Nasal Cavity
What organ filters, warms, and moistens the air inhaled?
100
The first step in the exchange of gasses.
What is the inhalation of oxygen?
100
the system that circulates the oxygenated blood to extremities of the body
What is the cardiovascular system?
100
it may cause humans breathe more quickly to re-oxygenate blood
What does laughing do?
200
Windpipe and it has rings of elastic cartilage to keep it open.
What is the trachea?
200
Alveoli
What are the tiny air sacs where the actual process of gas exchange occurs?
200
The location where gas exchange occurs.
What is the alveoli?
200
controls rate of breathing
How does the nervous system interact with the respiratory system?
200
To expel irritants from the lungs
What is sneezing?
300
Pathways that lead to an individual alveoli at the end of it.
What are the Bronchial tubes?
300
Bronchial Tubes
What are pathways that lead to an individual alveoli at the end of it?
300
area where oxygen diffuses into bloodstream and carbon dioxide gets removed
What is function of the alveoli in the gas exchange?
300
Alters the pH of blood with use of carbon dioxide
What does the respiratory system do with the excretory system?
300
force inhalation when the body does not process enough oxygen
What is yawning?
400
The voice box, stretches vocal cords during inhaling, prevents choking.
What is the larynx?
400
Epiglottis
What is a flap that closes the air tube so air and food go to separate organs?
400
The last step in the gas exchange.
What is the exhalation of carbon dioxide?
400
Serve as a layer of shock absorbent protection for the heart
How do the lungs protect the heart?
400
a forced exhalation of irritants from airways or an attempt to remove mucus from the lungs
What is coughing?
500
A flap that closes the air tube so air and food go to separate organs.
What is the epiglottis?
500
Pharynx
What is the name of the area where both the trachea(air tube) and the esophagus(food tube) meet?
500
How does gas exchange occur?
Oxygen diffuses through the thin wall of the blood capillary and through the thin wall of the alveoli and exchanges with the carbon dioxide to re-oxygenize the blood cells.
500
Filter out small blood clots formed in veins
What do the lungs also do with the circulatory system?
500
22
What is the number of the the divisions of the bronchial tubes in the lungs?