Respiration Flashcards
Respiratory System
The group of organs that provides living things with oxygen from outside the body and disposes of waste products such as carbon dioxide.
Respiration
All of the processes involved in bringing oxygen into the body, making it available to each cell, and eliminating carbon dioxide as waste.
Inspiration
The action of drawing oxygen rich air into the lungs
Expiration
The action of releasing waste air from the lungs
Gas exchange
The transfer of oxygen from inhaled air into the blood, and of carbon dioxide from the blood into the lungs. Primary lung function.
Ventilation
The process of drawing, or pumping, in oxygen - containing medium over a respiratory surface.
Diffusion Gradient
Describes the relationship in which a dissolved substance moves from a region of high concentration to low concentration
Diaphragm
A sheet of muscle that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity.
3 Requirements for a Respiratory Surface
Large enough surface are for gas exchange.
Moist membrane.
Concentration Gradient
Diffusion Distance
How is a large surface area for gas exchange created
Through infoldings or outfoldings. Gills have visible outfoldings. Lungs have alveoli.
Why does a respiratory surface need a moist membrane?
O2 and CO2 must be dissolved in water in order to pass through a membrane
Why does movement of gases from inside to outside a membrane occur?
There is a difference in concentration. They always move from high concentration to low concentration.
Why must there be a small diffusion distance?
O2 will not get where it is needed quickly if the diffusion difference is too great
Types of Respiratory Systems
Skin
Gills
Trachaeal system
Lungs
Skin as a respiratory system
Organism lives in moist environment to provide moist membrane. Process of diffusion transports O2 and CO2 in and out of cells in blood.
Gills as a respiratory system
Extension of folds in the body surface that increase surface area. Used by aquatic animals. Counter Current Gas Exchange occurs.
Counter Current Gas Exchange
Water flows in one direction over gills and blood flows through in the opposite direction, increasing gas exchange and efficiency.
Trachaeal System
Used by insects, internal system of branching respiratory tracheae tubes, which connect directly to environment for gas exchange.
Lungs
Large animals use this. Contain sacs called alveoli.
Parts of the Respiratory System
Nasal hairs and cilia Turbinate bones Olfactory patch Sinuses Eustachian tubes Pharynx Tonsils and Adenoids Larynx Epiglottis Glottis Trachea Bronchi Bronchioles Lungs Alveoli Diaphragm Thoracic Cavity Pleura
Nasal hairs and cilia
Located in nasal cavity. Trap dust particles and prevent them from entering lungs.
Turbinate bones
Located at the top of the nasal cavity and are covered with cells that are well supplied with blood vessels. Produce mucus to trap dust particles, moisten and warm air.
Sinuses
Warm dark cubby holes in skull that lead to nowhere and could become infected.
Eustachian tubes
Auditory tubes. Lead from the middle of the ears to nasopharynx. Drain the ears into the back of the throat.
Pharynx
Passageway from the nasal cavities to oral cavities and larynx. Air and food travel through.
Tonsils and Adenoids
Special clumps of cells that assist the immune system to clean impurities in very young children.
Two more names for larynx
Adam’s apple
Voicebox
Larynx
Cartilaginous structure lyig between the pharynx and trachea. Houses vocal cords.
How do the vocal cords work?
As exhaled air passes over the vocal cords, sound is produced.
Epiglottis
Flap of tissue that covers the glottis.
Glottis
Opening to the larynx/trachea
Trachea dimensions
12cm long, 2cm in diameter
How is the trachea held open?
By c-shaped cartilaginous rings
What lines the trachea
Ciliated cells which sweep impurities up toward the pharynx. Can be destroyed by smoking, which then creates “Smoker’s Cough”
Trachea
Tube that transports air into the lungs
Bronchial tree
Bronchus to bronchioles to alveoli