Respiratory System

Question 0

What is the system that is used by humans and other animals for gas exchange called.

Answer 0

The respiratory system

Question 1

With every breath you take what does your body take in and release.

Answer 1

Your body takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide

Question 2

The oxygen filled air moves through your respiratory system by first entering the ____________ or _______________.

Answer 2

Nose or mouth

Question 3

After entering the body,the air then passes through the trachea to the two main tubes. What are those tubes called.

Answer 3

Lungs

Question 4

Once inside the lungs each bronchus divides into smaller and smaller tube witch leads to grape like sacs known as _______________.

Answer 4

Alveoli

Question 5

While oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the capillaries what’s other thing does the alveoli receive. HINT: a waste product. This waste product is inhaled while the oxygen enters the circulatory system.

Answer 5

Carbon dioxide

Question 6

All animals need oxygen, however,some have different ways of getting it.

1. Insects use tiny wholes called _______________.
2. Fish take oxygen through organs called ______________.
3. birds use lungs, but are different because gasses move in only one _________.

Answer 6

1. Spiracles
2. Gills
3. Direction

Question 7

What does gills of a fish and alveoli have in common.

Answer 7

They both bring oxygen into the organism. They both have a moist surface area for gass exchange.