Respiratory System

Question 1

What are the two processes involved in breathing?

Answer 1

Inhalation and Expiration

Question 2

What is external respiration and what is internal respiration?

Answer 2

External- Exchange of 02/CO2 in the lungs

Internal- Exchange of 02/CO2 cells

Question 3

What are the components of the respiratory system and how air moves through?

Answer 3

Air moves= Nose- Nasal cavity- Nasopharnyx- Oral pharynx- Laryngeal pharynx- Larynx- Trachea- Bronchia- Bronchioles- Alveoli

Question 4

What are the 3 divisions of the pharynx?

Answer 4

Nasopharynx, Oral Pharynx and Laryngeal Pharynx

Question 5

What is the name of your voicebox?

Answer 5

Larynx

Question 6

What is the name of your windpipe?

Answer 6

Trachea

Question 7

Within which structure of the lungs is air exchanged?

Answer 7

Alveoli exchanges with capillaries

Question 8

What is the muscular partition separating the thoracic and abdominal cavity that moves with inhaling and exhaling?

Answer 8

Diaphragm

Question 9

What is Croup?

Answer 9

swelling of trachea

Question 10

What is Epitaxis?

Answer 10

Nosebleed

Question 11

What is Pertussis?

Answer 11

Whooping cough

Question 12

What is Bronchitis?

Answer 12

Inflammation infection

Question 13

What is Laryngitis?

Answer 13

Inflammation of voice-box

Question 14

What is Pharyngitis?

Answer 14

Inflammation of the pharynx

Question 15

What is Tonsillitis?

Answer 15

Inflammation of the tonsils

Question 16

What is Pneumonia?

Answer 16

Infection of lungs low exchange

Question 17

What is Asthma?

Answer 17

Sensitive airways get smaller lots of mucus

Question 18

What is Emphysema?

Answer 18

Alveoli breaks down in lungs (fatal)

Question 19

What is TB?

Answer 19

bacterial infection

Question 20

What is Cancer?

Answer 20

Lung, mouth,throat continuities cells reproducing

Question 21

What is a Tracheotomy?

Answer 21

Surgical creation of an opening into the trachea through the neck