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The Breathing and Respiratory System
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- 1The Breathing and Respiratory SystemBy: Hamza Ahmed
Year 8 - 2What is the breathing and respiratory system?The breathing and respiratory system is a group of organs that take in oxygen and take out carbon dioxide.
- 3Where is the breathing and respiratory system?It is in your chest.
- 4What makes up the breathing and respiratory system?
- 5What happens when you breathe in?Air enters your body and your diaphragm and muscles around your ribs contract.
- 6What happens when you breathe out?Your muscles around your ribs relax and waste air (carbon dioxide) leaves your body.
- 7What happens in the respiratory system?You breathe in air and it goes through your trachea, where it then enters the alveoli where oxygen goes to the red blood cells.
- 8What is the trachea?The tube in your throat where air is passed through.
- 9What is your lungs?Organs in the rib cage, that are like elastic sacs in which air is in, so that oxygen can pass into the blood and carbon dioxide be removed.
- 10What is the alveoli?Alveoli are tiny sacs in lungs that allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to move between the lungs and the blood cells.
- 11What is the pharynx?The organ behind the nose and mouth, connecting them to the oesophagus.
- 12What is the bronchus?Air passages of the lungs that separates from the windpipe.
- 13What are bronchioles?Branches in which a bronchus separate.
- 14What is the nasal cavity?The air filled space behind the nose.
- 15What is the diaphragm?The muscle under the ribs that help with breathing.
- 16What are red blood cells?The cells that carry oxygen (which makes them red) around your body.
- 17What are some diseases in the respiratory system?Influenza, asthma and lung cancer.
- 18What is influenza?A highly contagious infection of the respiratory passages ,it's also referred to as flu.
- 19What is asthma?A condition in which a person's airways become inflamed and narrow which makes it difficult to breathe.
- 20What is lung cancer?A cancer that begins in the lungs.
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- This is 20 flashcards on what we are studying, the breathing and respiratory system.
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