Respiratory 1
Name an organ of the respiratory system.
ie. Lungs
Each sequence of relaxation and contraction of the heart.
What is the cardiac cycle?
What is the function of the respiratory system?
Breathing
What is eating a large meal and drinking a lot of water?
What are blood vessels that take blood to the heart?
veins
Name a disease of the respiratory system.
ie. asthma
The form in which oxygen is carried by red blood cells.
What is oxyhemoglobin?
Which are bigger? Bronchi or bronchioles
bronchi
What waste product does blood carry away?
What are blood vessels that take blood away from the heart?
arteries
What do you call the organ that keeps food and water out of the respiratory system?
Epiglottis
What is one way to keep your circulatory system healthy?
ie. healthy diet
What are three functions of the nasal cavity
warms, moisturizes, and filters air
What is is called when part of the heart dies or is damaged?
heart attack
Used by the the body's cells to produce energy from glucose during cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
The chemical reaction that exchanges oxygen for carbon dioxide is called?
cellular respiration
Name the 3 types of circulation.
Systemic, Coronary, Pulmonary
Where gas is exchanged between air and blood.
What are the capillaries surrounding the alveoli?
A stroke happens when part of which organ dies or is damaged?
brain
These vessels have flaps called valves that act like double doors that open only one way to regulate the flow to the heart.
What are veins?
Name the order in which air passes through the respiratory system?
nose and mouth, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli
What does the circulatory system transport from the digestive system?
nutrients
the red pigment molecule that transports oxygen and carbon dioxide in vertebrate red blood cells.
What is hemoglobin?
What is atherosclerosis?
buildup of fatty materials within the walls of the arteries
Yellow fluid that makes up the highest percentage of blood.
What is plasma?
Monitored by the brain's respiratory center to regulate the body's breathing rate.
What is pH of the blood
The most common component in blood beside plasma. These disc-shaped molecules hold hemoglobin and carry carbon dioxide and oxygen.
What are erythrocytes?
The process by which oxygen in the air in the lungs moves into the bloodstream from a region of high to a region of low concentration.
What is diffusion?
These rid the circulatory system of antigens.
What are leukocytes?
Four things blood transports.
What is oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, and waste products?
The trachea branches into these before entering the lungs.
What are bronchi?
Twice as big as the red blood cells, these cells migrate from the lymphatic system to rid the body of antigens. The number of these cells increases when a person is sick.
What are leukocytes?
adding up up the volume of air breathed in when you breathe in as much as you can, plus the air breathed forcefully out.
What is lung capacity?
Also called thrombocytes, these cell fragments clump together in a complex process to form a clot to stop blood loss.
What are platelets?
The flow of blood through the heart and lungs.
What is the right atrium, right ventricle, lungs, left atrium, left ventricle?