Anatomical Structure
This tube carries air from the nose and mouth to the lungs.
what is the trachea?
Your lungs are protected by these bones.
What are the ribs?
This common illness causes sneezing, coughing, and a runny nose.
What is the common cold?
Hiccups happen when this breathing muscle has a tiny freak-out.
What is the diaphragm?
The gas your body needs to survive.
What is oxygen?
These 2 organs are protected by the rib cage and help you breathe.
What are the lungs?
Why do you breathe faster when exercising?
to get more oxygen into your blood system.
This viral disease can cause fever, cough, body aches, and spreads easily.
What is the flu?
You breathe about this many times per minute when resting.
What is about 12-20 times?
The waste gas you breath out.
What is carbon dioxide?
Tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen enters the blood.
What are alveoli?
The lung that is slightly smaller (1 less lobe).
What is the left lung?
This condition causes the airways to tighten and makes breathing difficult, often triggered by allergies or exercise.
What is asthma?
Sneezing can send air out of your nose at speeds over this. ( Miles per hour).
What is 100 miles per hour?
Gas exchange happens between the alveoli and these tiny blood vessels.
What are capillaries?
This muscle under the lungs helps you inhale and exhale.
What is the diaphragm?
This happens to your breathing when carbon dioxide levels rise in the blood.
What is an increase in your breathing rate?
This serious lung infection can fill the alveoli with fluid and make breathing hard.
What is pneumonia?
Even though they help you breathe, your lungs have no muscles of their own. True or false?
What is True?
Oxygen is carried in the blood by this red blood cell protein.
What is hemoglobin?
The small branching tubes that carry air from the bronchi to the alveoli?
What are the bronchioles?
The nose is better to breath through consistently because of these reasons.
It warms, moistens, and filters the air.
This long-term disease damages the lungs and is often caused by smoking.
What is COPD (or emphysema) ?
The longest amount of time someone has held their breath.
What is 29 minutes and 3 seconds?
This process moves oxygen from the alveoli into the blood.
What is diffusion?