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Flashcards by Hamza Ahmed, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Hamza Ahmed
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The Breathing and Respiratory System | By: Hamza Ahmed Year 8 |
| What 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. |
| Where is the breathing and respiratory system? | It is in your chest. |
| What makes up the breathing and respiratory system? | |
| What happens when you breathe in? | Air enters your body and your diaphragm and muscles around your ribs contract. |
| What happens when you breathe out? | Your muscles around your ribs relax and waste air (carbon dioxide) leaves your body. |
| What 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. |
| What is the trachea? | The tube in your throat where air is passed through. |
| What 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. |
| What is the alveoli? | Alveoli are tiny sacs in lungs that allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to move between the lungs and the blood cells. |
| What is the pharynx? | The organ behind the nose and mouth, connecting them to the oesophagus. |
| What is the bronchus? | Air passages of the lungs that separates from the windpipe. |
| What are bronchioles? | Branches in which a bronchus separate. |
| What is the nasal cavity? | The air filled space behind the nose. |
| What is the diaphragm? | The muscle under the ribs that help with breathing. |
| What are red blood cells? | The cells that carry oxygen (which makes them red) around your body. |
| What are some diseases in the respiratory system? | Influenza, asthma and lung cancer. |
| What is influenza? | A highly contagious infection of the respiratory passages ,it's also referred to as flu. |
| What is asthma? | A condition in which a person's airways become inflamed and narrow which makes it difficult to breathe. |
| What is lung cancer? | A cancer that begins in the lungs. |
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