Altitude
Exercise
Components
Diseases
Functions
100
Acclimatization.
What is the adaptation to a new climate or altitude?
100
In heavy exercise expiration is primarily passive. (True or False.)
What is False? In heavy exercise expiration requires energy.
100
Passageway for both air and food.
What is the Pharynx?
100
The most common respiratory disease.
What is asthma?
100
In gas exchange, oxygen is _______ __ the blood.
What is added to?
200
Altitude sickness.
What is a maladjustment of an individual ot the lack of oxygen at a high altitude.
200
How to measure a resting respiration rate.
What is counting the number of times a person breathes in and out per minute?
200
The voice box (serves as the "organ of voice") is a short passageway that connects the pharynx with the trachea.
What is the Larynx?
200
Disease that is irreversible and permanent, usually associated with smoking.
What is Emphysema?
200
The process of inhaling and exhaling air into and out of the lungs.
What is ventilation?
300
Headache, difficulty sleeping, early morning arousal, difficulty breathing on exertion, loss of appetite, light-headednesss, fatigue, confusion, weakness, alteration of heart rate, and edema.
What is symptoms of altitude sickness?
300
The normal resting respiration rate for adults.
What is 12-18 beats per minute.
300
Cone shaped organ that has three lobes.
What is the right lung?
300
Alveolar sacs fill up with fluid and dead white blood cells, reducing the amount of air space in the lungs.
What is an infection or inflammation of the alveoli, or pneumonia?
300
When the lungs expand, the diaphragm contracts. (True or false.)
What is False. The chest cavity increases.
400
Athletes should begin acclimatizing how many days prior to event at higher altitudes?
What is 3-18 days?
400
Exercise decreases oxygen demands. (True or False.)
What is False. Exercise increases oxygen demands.
400
The windpipe; it sits anterior to the esophagus.
What is the Trachea?
400
Bronchitis.
What is an inflammation of the bronchial tubes; it can be acute and chronic.
400
The lungs fill with air through the _______?
What is alveoli?
500
At high altitudes, he number of molecules/volume of oxygen is _______than at sea level.
What is smaller?
500
The two body systems that must work together during exercise to meet the gas exchange requirements.
What is the circulatory and respiratory systems.
500
Air sacs in the lungs that are surrounded by tiny capillaries, where gas exchange takes place between the air and the blood.
What is Alveoli?
500
Air within the chest cavity but outside of the lung. The lung has separated from the chest wall.
What is Pneumothorax?
500
Intrathoracic pressure.
What is pressure inside of the chest cavity?