Quiz 6

Question 1

What are the 2 bones that make up the nasal septum?

Answer 1

Vomer and ethmoid

Question 2

Why is the right lung more susceptible to aspiration of foreign material than the left lung?

Answer 2

Right lung has a wider bronchus

Question 3

Why does the left lung have fewer lobes?

Answer 3

Needs to make space for the heart

Question 4

Filters air, warms and moistens air

Answer 4

Nasal cavity

Question 5

Used for immunity

Answer 5

Tonsil

Question 6

Prevents food from falling into larynx/ lungs when eating or drinking

Answer 6

epiglottis

Question 7

Made of up endothelium

Answer 7

Type 1 alveoli

Question 8

Produces surfactant

Answer 8

Type 2 alveoli

Question 9

Eat foreign materials

Answer 9

macrophages

Question 10

Governed by principles of flow, pressure and resistance; driving force is atmospheric pressure

Answer 10

Pulmonary ventilation

Question 11

What muscles are used in resting/passive inhalation

Answer 11

External intercostals, diaphragm

Question 12

What muscles are used in resting/passive exhalation

Answer 12

none

Question 13

What muscles are used in forced inhalation

Answer 13

External intercostals, diaphragm, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, pectoralis minor

Question 14

What muscles are used in forced exhalation

Answer 14

Internal intercostals, diaphragm pushes up, rectus abdominis

Question 15

What happens to pressure and the chest cavity during exhalation?

Answer 15

increase pressure, chest cavity gets smaller

Question 16

What happens to pressure and the chest cavity during inhalation?

Answer 16

decrease pressure, chest cavity gets larger