The long muscle below your lungs. It helps you breathe in and out.
What is the diaphragm?
100
The part of the pharynx that is closest to your mouth.
What is the oropharynx?
100
A space in your head where much of the dust, pollen, bacteria and other stuff in the air you breathe is filtered out.
What is the Nasal Cavity?
100
The system that enables you to breathe; your nose, trachea, and lungs are a few of the parts of this system.
What is the respiratory system?
100
What does the hair in your nose do?
What is ... It filters large particles out of the air you breathe.
200
Strings or strips of tissue that are pulled tightly across your larynx. They vibrate as air blows by, giving you the ability to make sounds.
What are vocal cords?
200
Air passes through these structures in your nasal cavity where it is cleaned, moistened and brought to the correct temperature.
What are conchae?
200
The uppermost part of the pharynx. It is connected to the inner ear.
What is the nasopharynx?
200
The condition that occurs when your bronchi are swollen, usually because of an infection.
What is bronchitis?
200
What does the mucus in your nasal passage do?
What is ... It captures particles out of the air you breathe.
300
Tiny motorized "whips" waving back and forth on the cells lining the back of your nose and throughout much of the respiratory tract.
What is cilia?
300
The two tubes that branch out from the trachea.
What are bronchi?
300
A small pink projection hanging downward from your soft palate.
What is the Uvula?
300
Very small, thin-walled tubes that carry air to where the lungs can finally use it.
What are bronchioles?
300
Explain how the conchae help to warm and moisten the air you breathe.
What is ... They disrupt the air flow, making the air bounce around and hit the warm, moist tissue in your nasal cavity.
400
Balloon-like sacs in the lungs that allow the oxygen you need to pass easily from the air you inhale into the blood stream.
What are Alveoli?
400
The last part of the pharynx.
What is the Laryngopharynx?
400
Mucus producing tissues, found in many parts of your body.
What are the Mucous Membranes?
400
The part of your body that gives you the ability to speak.
What is the larynx?
400
What determines your voice's pitch and what determines the volume?
What is...
The tension in the vocal chords and how thick and heavy they are determine the pitch.
How much air crosses over your vocal chords determines the volume.
500
Holes in your skull that aid in the warming, moisturizing and filtering of the air you breathe.
What are sinus cavities?
500
Bronchioles fan out to create these little spaces where air enters the alveoli.
What are alveolar ducts?
500
Air passes through the three parts of this structure on its way down to the trachea.
What is the pharynx?
500
Another name for larynx
What is the voice box?
500
Name the dangers of smoking.
What is... it increases your chance of lung cancer, raises your blood pressure, damages your lungs, and is addictive.