The respiratory system

Question 1

Why is oxygen needed?

Answer 1

to get energy from food

Question 2

What happens to the air when we breath through our nose?

Answer 2

its filtered, warmed, and moistened

Question 3

What is the larynx? and where is it located?

Answer 3

the voice box and located at the bottom of the pharynx

Question 4

What is in the larynx?

Answer 4

the vocal cords

Question 5

Where is the trachea located?

Answer 5

at the bottom of the larynx

Question 6

What prevents food from entering the trachea?

Answer 6

the epiglottis

Question 7

What do bronchi do?

Answer 7

they carry air to each lung

Question 8

What does the trachea divide into?

Answer 8

Bronchial tubes, (bronchi)

Question 9

The bronchi divide in to smaller branches that contain what?

Answer 9

alveoli

Question 10

What are capillaries?

Answer 10

tiny blood vessels

Question 11

Where does gas exchange occur?

Answer 11

in the alveoli

Question 12

What’s a diaphragm?

Answer 12

a muscle found under the rib cage

Question 13

When you inhale what happens to the diaphragm?

Answer 13

it contracts/flattens

Question 14

When you exhale what happens to the diaphragm?

Answer 14

it relaxes / goes up

Question 15

The respiratory consists of what 6 things?

Answer 15

1- nose
2- pharynx
3- larynx
4- trachea
5- bronchial tubes
6-lungs

Question 16

What is muscular contraction?

Answer 16

breathing

Question 17

When you inhale what happens to the ribs?

Answer 17

the muscles between the ribs pull the ribs upwards and outwards

Question 18

What’s the most common disease?

Answer 18

A regular cold.

Question 19

What’s a thick mucous when it comes to diseases in the respiratory system?

Answer 19

Phlegm

Question 20

What’s asthma?

Answer 20

partial blocking of the bronchial tubes

Question 21

What’s bronchitis?

Answer 21

inflammation in the bronchial tubes.

Question 22

What are nasal cavities?

Answer 22

two chambers located in the nose

Question 23

The trachea contains what type of glands?

Answer 23

Mucous glands.

Question 24

What’s diffusion?

Answer 24

when particles go from a high concentration to a low concentration.

Question 25

Where are the alveoli located?

Answer 25

in the lungs

Question 26

What is venous blood?

Answer 26

blood that is filled with CO2

Question 27

What is arterial blood?

Answer 27

blood that is filled with O2.

Question 28

The point of respiration is to get what?

Answer 28

Energy

Question 29

Name 2 types of fluids.

Answer 29

1-gases

2-liquids

Question 30

What’s a compressible fluid?

Answer 30

It’s a gas that can be compressed because of the large spaces between the particles.

Question 31

Why wouldn’t you be able to compress a fluid?

Answer 31

Because the spaces between the particles are very small

Question 32

When gasses are compressed what changes?

Answer 32

the volume