Lungs And Stuff

Question 1

What are the functions of the respiratory system?

Answer 1

Brings air from the atmosphere 
Transfers oxygen into the blood
Removes carbon dioxide from the blood
Expel heat
Gives us the ability to speak

Question 2

What dose the respiratory system do?

Answer 2

It allows the body to

Breathe brining oxygen to the blood and removing carbon dioxide

Question 3

What is the Structure of the respiratory system

Answer 3

The conducting system
The lungs
The diaphragm

Question 4

What dose the conducting system do?

Answer 4

The conducting system
Warms and filters the air
(The filter in the nasal
cavity is called cillia)

Question 5

What dose the larynx do?

Answer 5

The larynx is known as the voice box

When air passes through the vocal cord it creates sound

Question 6

What are the main functions of the circulatory system

Answer 6

Circulate blood to all parts of the body
To transfer water, oxygen and nutrients to cells
Transport waste away from cells
Helps maintain body temp 
Helps fight disease

Question 7

Components of the circulatory system

Answer 7

The heart
Blood vessels 
Blood
Arteries 
Veins

Question 8

What are components of the heart

Answer 8

Right atrium 
Left atrium 
Right ventricle
Left ventricle 
Tricuspid valve 
Mitral valve
Aorta

Question 9

How is blood circulated through the heart and body

Answer 9

Blood enters the heart through two large veins, the inferior and superior vena cava, emptying oxygen-poor blood from the body into the right atrium. As the atrium contracts, blood flows from your right atrium into your right ventricle through the open tricuspid valve.

Question 10

What is the function of the arteries

Answer 10

Arteries carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart to the body. ( they are the largest blood vessel

Question 11

What is the function of the veins

Answer 11

Carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart. They have one way valve which only allow blood to flow in one direction.

Question 12

What is the function of the capillaries

Answer 12

These are small blood vessels and they exchange nutrients and waste between the blood and body’s cells they thin walls to allow this to happen

Question 13

What is the function of red blood cells

Answer 13

Carry oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the cells and muscle
And produces bone marrow

Question 14

What is the function of white blood cells

Answer 14

Fight disease causing organisms

Question 15

What is the function of hemoglobin

Answer 15

Is the substance in red blood cells that oxygen attaches to.

Question 16

What is the function of plasma

Answer 16

Plasma is clear yellowish fluid in which the blood cells are suspended, plasma provides the cell with proteins, salts, fats, glucose, antibodies, and some oxygen

Question 17

What is the function of platelets

Answer 17

They cause blood to clot when blood vessels are damaged.

Question 18

Components of the respiratory system

Answer 18

Brings air from the atmosphere into the lungs
Transfer oxygen into the blood
Remove carbon dioxide from blood
Expel heat
Allows vocal cords to create speech as air is breathed out.

Question 19

What is inspiration

Answer 19

Air moves from a high pressure area to a low pressure area, as the chest cavity expands the pressure inside decreases, therefor sucking in the air outside the lungs which is a higher pressure area

Question 20

What is expiration

Answer 20

Breathing out

When the diaphragm relaxes and the chest cavity returns to its smaller state.

Question 21

Gas exchange in the body

Answer 21

Gas exchange is the delivery of oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream, and the elimination of carbon dioxide from the bloodstream to the lungs.

Question 22

What is the membrane which covers you lungs?

Answer 22

Pleura

Question 23

What is the conducting system

Answer 23

Nadal cavity 
Pharynx
Larynx 
Trachea
Bronchi
Bronchioles
Alveoli