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Breathing
Sickness
Function
Potpourri
100
Hair-like structures used as a filter
What is cilia?
100
Air sacs in the lungs increase ______ so diffusion can occur.
What is surface area?
100
Mucus is produced and coughing harms cilia and bronchial tubes
What is chronic bronchitis?
100
The amount of blood that passes through the kidneys each day
What is all of it?
100
Smoke from cigarettes temporarily paralyzes this that lines your trachea and lungs.
What is cilia?
200
Prevents food from entering the trachea
What is the epiglottis?
200
When you exhale and see your breath, this is because it contains this _______.
What is water vapor?
200
Caused from smoking, leading type of this death
What is lung cancer?
200
This is not reabsorbed by the blood after passing through the kidneys.
What are wastes?
200
Item in cigarette smoke that is greatest contributor to lung cancer
What is tar?
300
This is where your vocal cords are attached
What is the larynx?
300
Happens to the chest when you exhale
What is contracts or gets smaller?
300
Wheezing, bronchial tubes contract quickly, can be an allergic reaction
What is asthma?
300
Describes the movement of the chest that brings air into the lungs and removes wastes
What is breathing?
300
process in which carbon dioxide waste is expelled
What is exhalation?
400
Area of the brain that monitors the amount of water in the blood
What is the hypothalamus?
400
When air pressure outside is greater than inside the lungs, does air rush in or rush out?
What is rush in?
400
Main cause is smoking, alveoli in lungs lose ability to expand and contract
What is Emphysema?
400
The process of moving oxygen and carbon dioxide across alveoli and cell membrane
What is diffusion?
400
Process in which oxygen is supplied to the body.
What is inhalation?
500
Each kidney is made up of about a million of them.
What are nephrons?
500
This describes the process of carbon dioxide being removed from cells to the lungs.
What is circulation?
500
Since the heart works harder to supply oxygen to blood cells, people who have emphysema often have this as well
What are heart problems?
500
Three things that can cause respiratory problems.
What are smoking, air pollution, and coal dust?
500
Chest cavity does this when you inhale
What is expand?