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Flashcards by sundus mohamed <3, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 3.2 Breathing and respiration. | Sundus mohamed 8a |
| what is respiration? | Respiration refers to a series of chemical changes that take place in cells to release energy. |
| What is the respiratory system? | The system of organs and tissues that take air into the body. |
| How does the respiratory system work? | it takes air into your body and ultimately makes oxygen available to the cells. |
| When you breathe in what happens to the air? | some air may come in through your mouth but most of it through your nose its warmed, moistened then cleaned. |
| Breathing allows you to take in the oxygen your cells need but when you exhale, you also breathe out a lot of water.When at rest, humans exhale up to 17.5 milliliters (0.59 fluid ounces) of water per hour, according to a 2012 article but you lose about four times that amount when you exercise, the study said. | |
| what do the nostrils do? | They take in the air then filter large dust particles. |
| what does the mucus do? | mucus is produced by gland sin the skin lining the inside of your hose and millions of cellio in it. |
| Riddle : Im as light as a feather yet the strongest man cant hold me for more than a minute. What am i? | Breath |
| What does the pharynx do? | It connects the mouth and nose to the oesophagus. |
| how much mucus do you swallow each day? | You're swallowing on average twice a minute even when you're sleeping at night says Michael Ellis, an ear, nose and throat doctor at Tulane University. |
| what is the trachea? | It is a tube as thick as a garden hose. |
| What are the alveoli? | A cluster of sacs at the end of the bronchioles where gas exchange takes place. |
| what do the alveoli provide? | An alveoli provides oxygen. |
| What happens to the oxygen once it is in the blood? | It enters the red blood cells, and the flow of blood carries the oxygen to cells where its needed. |
| What is Carbon dioxide and what does the body do with it? | Carbon dioxide is a waste product that would harm your body if you did not get rid of it. Carbon dioxide moves from your cell into your blood. |
| What is breathing and can you stop yourself from breathing? | Breathing is involuntary- although you can force yourself to stop breathing for a while. |
| What is the diaphragm? | Sheet of muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen. |
| What does respiratory require? | 1-Glucose 2-oxygen. |
| How much alveoli makes up your lung? |
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