True or False: Lung Cancer is when a person smokes for a long time and their lungs keep getting worse. This makes it difficult for the blood to move around the body, so they will feel slightly hyper and cranky. The longer they smoke the closer they get to having lung cancer.
FALSE: ..... This makes it difficult for the blood to move around the body, so they will feel *tired* (not slightly hyper) and cranky.
100
What is the Nose's job?
Filter air for dust and other particles.
100
What is the job of the larynx?
The larynx is the part of the throat that contains the vocal cords.
100
What is the part of your body that fills with air?
Lungs
100
What part of your body do you breathe through?
Nose
200
Is pneumonia is an infection of both lungs, not just one?
NO: Pneumonia is an infection of *either or* both lungs.
200
What is the Diaphragm's job?
It works with your lungs to help you to inhale and exhale.
200
What is the job of the Pharynx?
From the nose, air flows into the pharynx. It branches into two tubes.
200
What is the upper part of your throat called?
Your Pharynx
200
What is your voice box also known as?
Your Larynx
300
True or False: Swollen airways may produce extra mucus, making things sticky, so difficult breathing is easy to notice.
True
300
What is the job of the lungs?
The lungs absorb oxygen from the air and give the blood the oxygen it needs, and relieve it of carbon dioxide.
300
What is the job of the trachea?
The trachea is the tube running from the back of the mouth to the lungs. Aka the windpipe.
300
What is the dome-shaped sheet of muscle that works with the lungs to allow you to inhale and exhale called?
Your Diaphragm
300
What is the tube running from the back of the mouth to the lungs referred to as other than the windpipe?
Your Trachea
400
What is Asthma?
Asthma is a condition that affects a persons airways.
400
What is the job of the Bronchi?
The Bronchi are the two main air tubes that branch from the trachea.
400
What is the definition of respiratory?
In biology, the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living cells and their environment; includes breathing and cellular.
400
What are the two main air tubes that branch from the trachea?
Your Bronchi Tubes
400
What are the tiny air sacks in the lung that are located at the end of each bronchiole? Hint: they allow the oxygen from the air to pass into your blood
Your Alveoli
500
How does Pneumonia effect the alveoli?
The infection creates a fluid that blocks the alveoli.
500
What is the job of the Alveoli?
The Alveoli allow oxygen to pass into your blood.
500
What is the three health problems?
Lung Cancer, Asthma, and Pneumonia.
500
What are all of the parts in the Respiratory System? (not including the other 500 pt question)
The Nose, Lungs, Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea, Diaphragm, Bronchi Tubes, and the Alveoli.
500
When the air leaves the alveoli, what does it enter into?
Hint: once inside this, it the __________ travels into the blood stream, traveling through layers of blood vessels to the heart, where the oxygenated blood is sent out into all the cells of the body. (This answer is also related to the circulatory system)