How dose it work?
What are tiny, balloon-like air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs
What is the Alveoli
Why dose the chest expand
To create space for air
What is false
When you inhale pressure goes up: Myth or Fact
Myth: it goes down
When the chest volume increases, what decreases
What is pressure inside
What dose the brain do when the blood has a lot of gas?
What is breathing
What is the only human organ that can float on water?
What is the lungs
Is the left and right lung equal in size: True or False
What is False
The chest gets bigger when you breathe in: Fact or Myth
What is Fact
Chest muscles do what during exhaling
what is relaxing
What is the trachea also called?
what is windpipe
A person usually breathes an average of 13 pints of air every minute? True or False
What is True
People think that during inhaling the chest gets bigger, pressure goes up?
False: People believe this misconception because people think our lungs are like a balloon because when you breathe it expands.
Air goes into your lungs because you push it in with your mouth: Myth or Fact
Myth: you diaphragm and chest mussels actually pull the air in
When the diaphragm moved down, what increases
what is chest volume
Which muscle below the is the primary muscle responsible for breathing?
What is Diaphram
Which statement is true about the main reason why we breathe? To put oxygen inside our body
The main reason we breathe is to enable a process called cellular respiration, which involves both taking in oxygen and getting rid carbon dioxide
People think lungs suck in air what really happens?
False: Pressure differences move air, not suction
The right lung has 3 lobes and left lung has 2: Fact or Myth
What is Fact
What mussels help the lungs expand during inhaling?
what is the diaphragm and intercostal mussels
What is external respiration
It is where oxygen diffuses from the lungs into the bloodstream
Which muscles mainly help you breathe IN (inhale)? The diaphragm and abdominal muscles
The intercostal muscles and diaphragms are the most used for inhaling and breathing in. Abdominal muscles allow movement in the abdominal area.
Holding your breath for long periods of time can increase your lungs capacity:
False: lung capacity depends on your genetics
The lungs are sterile and germ-free, even when you are healthy: Myth or Fact
Myth: they contain diverse types of bacteria
Cellular respiration is taking oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide in the cells
ATP energy, water and Co2