The Respiratory System - Overview

Question 1

The Respiratory System is also known as?

Answer 1

Pulmonary System

Question 2

What do the lungs do?

Answer 2

The lungs supply oxygen to the blood and get rid of the carbon dioxide waste that the blood brings back to the heart

Question 3

CPR

Answer 3

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Question 4

The main function of the respiratory system is to ____

Answer 4

Supply oxygen to the body’s cells and remove carbon dioxide

Question 5

Respiration actually occurs on two separate levels, ____ and ____

Answer 5

External and Internal

Question 6

External respiration

Answer 6

When you breathe in, oxygen is brought into the lungs for the blood to pick up. When you breathe out, you blow out carbon dioxide that has moved from the blood to the lungs

Question 7

Internal respiration, or cellular respiration, is ____ to the process involved in external respiration, but conducted at the ____ level

Answer 7

• Parallel

* Cellular

Question 8

Internal respiration

Answer 8

After blood passing through the lungs picks up oxygen, the heart pumps the blood to the rest of the body. The oxygen passes through the capillary walls and into the interstitial space, where the cells absorb the oxygen. The cells release carbon dioxide as a byproduct of metabolism. This carbon dioxide waste is picked up by the bloodstream and carried to the lungs for expiration.

Question 9

Internal respiration is also known as ____

Answer 9

Cellular Respiration