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Upper Respiratory
Lungs
Breathing
Smoking
Other Health Problems
100
This is the scientific name for the windpipe.
What is trachea?
100
These branch off from the windpipe into each lung.
What are the bronchi?
100
Mucus and cilia do this as air passes through your nasal passages.
What is trap dust and dirt particles?
100
This is a smoker's disease in which a tumor forms in the lungs.
What is lung cancer?
100
This condition is an infection of the lungs and alveoli which causes chills, coughing, fever, and sweating.
What is Pneumonia?
200
These tiny hairs in your nasal passages trap dust and dirt particles.
What are cilia?
200
These are the smaller, branching passages inside your lungs.
What are the bronchioles?
200
These are three gases commonly found in air.
What are oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen?
200
Smoking can paralyze and eventually destroy these parts of the respiratory system.
What are cilia?
200
Asthma is a condition where this happens to the body's airways making it hard to breathe.
What is constricted or narrowed?
300
It is better to breathe through this part of your body.
What is your nose?
300
These are the tiny air sacs in your lungs.
What are alveoli?
300
In your nasal passages,this is added to the air that you breathe in.
What is moisture?
300
The bronchi of smokers are coated with this sticky black substance, making it harder for oxygen to pass from the lungs into the blood.
What is tar?
300
This condition is an infection of the bronchi which causes difficulty in breathing and coughing up mucus.
What is bronchitis?
400
Vocal cords are inside this part of your body.
What is the larynx?
400
These cover the outside of each alveolus, facilitating the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen with the circulatory system.
What are capillaries?
400
The diaphragm pushes in this direction when you breathe out.
What is up?
400
This gas produced by smoking prevents some oxygen from entering your red blood cells.
What is carbon monoxide?
400
This infection of the lungs was once almost eliminated in this country, but now it's back.
What is Tuberculosis or T.B.?
500
Particles of dust and dirt which are TRAPPED in your nasal passages are DESTROYED here.
What is the digestive system?
500
This lung is slightly smaller than the other lung.
What is the left lung?
500
The air you breathe in is composed of about this much oxygen.
What is 20 percent?
500
This chemical in cigarettes is addictive.
What is nicotine?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: These are created by white blood cells to fight viruses.
What are antibodies?