Health Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is the body housing the lungs?
Thoracic Cavity.
What is the thin membrane covering the lungs?
Pleura.
What are the tiny air sacs within the lungs where gas exchange occurs?
Alveoli.
What is the major muscle used in breathing?
Diaphragm.
What are the tiny structures that move mucus and trapped particles toward the pharynx to be swallowed and destroyed by stomach acids.
Ciliia.
What is the name given to air-filled cavities inside certain facial bones?
Sinuses.
What are two causes of asthma?
Allergies,change in weather, overexertion.
What are three common allergens?
Pollen, house dust, animal dander, chocolate, mold spores, eggs, wheat, seafoods.
The process to extract energy from the digested food is called
Respiration
Respiration is carried out in the body by the different organs of the ____________ ____________
Respiratory System
What is breathing called
External respiration
What do you exhale
Carbon dioxide
What is the sign for carbon dioxide
CO2
What do you inhale
Oxygen
What is the sign for oxygen
O
The gas exchange between cells and blood is called ____________ ____________
Internal respiration
During _____________ ______________, oxygen is combined with food products to make energy
Cellular respiration
What do humans and animals expel that plants need
Carbon dioxide
What do plants make for humans and animals
Oxygen and food
Is it better to breathe through your nose or your mouth
Nose
The _____________ ______________ in your nose collects many pathogens and dust particles from the air you breathe
Mucous membrane
As the air passes through the _________ __________ on its way to the lungs it is moisturized and warmed
Nasal cavity
What is the name for the throat
Pharynx
What is the name for the windpipe
Trachea
Branches of the windpipe
Bronchi and bronchioles
A sticky substance that dust and pathogens cling that is made by the mucous membrane
Mucous
Tiny hairlike structures that move mucous to the pharynx
Cilia
Where are your lungs located
The thoracic cavity
The large spongy organs of your respiratory system
Lungs
A thin slippery membrane covering your lungs
Pleura
Air sacs in the lungs
Alveoli
A muscle that deprecated the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity and aids in the breathing process by contracting to give added space in the thoracic cavity
Diaphragm
What color is a new born baby’s lungs
pink
pollutants, such as dust and tobacco smoke, turn the lungs from this healthy color to a __________ ___________ color
blotchy brownish
irritating substances that result in sneezing and wheezing
allergens
A persistent difficulty in breathing, usually due to some outside substance that has been ingested or inhaled
asthma
Asthma caused by an allergic reaction
allergy-induced asthma
Thick mucous in the throat
phlegm
Asthma caused by too much exercise
exercise-induced asthma
a group of air filled cavities located inside certain facial bones
sinuses
What prefix refers to the lungs
Pneumo
What prefix refers to the bronchi
Bronch
