Components
The main passageway both into and out of the respiratory system
What is the nose?
The overall goal of the respiratory system
What is maintaining homeostasis?
The amount of time it takes for lungs to become healthier after smoking
How long is one month?
The definition for inhalation
What is the act of breathing in or inhaling?
The smaller lung and the cause of its size
What is the left lung and position of the heart?
The muscle that helps the lungs both exhale and inhale
What is the diaphragm?
The two main functions of the respiratory system
What is exchanging gas?
The way ventilators work
What is pumping air into the lungs through positive pressure?
The definition for exhalation
What is the act of exhaling?
The more beneficial passageway of inhalation
What is the nose?
The air sacs in which CO₂ and O₂ are exchanged
What are the alveoli?
The reason the respiratory system speeds up
What is supplying the body with oxygen?
The effect of asthma
What is causing the bronchial tube to swell?
The definition of diffusion
What is the mixing of substances by the natural movement of their particles?
Roughly the size of your lungs if you were to unfold them
What is a tennis court?
Another name for 'vocal chords'
What is the larynx?
The job of the cilia
What is filtering out foreign particles?
The amount of people that have asthma globally
Who are 339,000,000 people?
The definition of oxygenate
What is the act of supplying oxygen?
The amount of times you breathe in a day
How much is 22,000 times?
The pipe that transports air to the lungs
What is the trachea?
The purpose of the epiglottis
What is preventing choking?
The structure in the lungs damaged by smoking
What is the cilia?
The definition of perfusion
What is the passage of blood through natural channels in the body?
The polymath who said, "The substance of the lung is dilatable and extensible like the tinder made from a fungus. But it is spongy and if you press it, it yields to the force which compresses it, and if the force is removed, it increases again to its original size."
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?