Lab 6: Respiratory System

Question 1

What moistens and warms incoming air? (Part of the Upper Respiratory: Nasal Cavity)

Answer 1

Turbinates

Question 2

______________ are canals that border the turbinates.

Answer 2

Meatuses

Question 3

What is the names of the four sinuses?

Answer 3

Frontal
Ethmoidal
Maxillary
Sphenoidal

Question 4

What are the functions of the sinuses?

Answer 4

Decrease weight of skull

Produce Mucus

Increase Resonance (of voice)

Question 5

The oral cavity is separated by the _________ and _________ palate.

Answer 5

hard

soft

Question 6

What is the area between the lips and the gums called?

Answer 6

Vestibule Space

Question 7

The _____________ is a common pathway for food/air.

Answer 7

pharynx

Question 8

What are the three pharynxs?

Answer 8

Nasopharynx

Oropharynx

Laryngopharynx

Question 9

The adam’s apple is also known as?

Answer 9

laryngeal prominence

Question 10

What routes air and food?

Answer 10

epiglottis

Question 11

What is the trachea kept open by?

Answer 11

cartilage

Question 12

What constricts the trachea?

Answer 12

Trachealis Muscle

Question 13

What is the trachea lined with?

Answer 13

pseudostratified epithelium tissue

Question 14

What does the pseudostratified epithelium tissue do in the trachea?

Answer 14

Entraps microorganisms in mucus and sweeps it away.

Question 15

The trachea bifurcates at the ______________.

Answer 15

carina

Question 16

Bronchioles terminate in tiny air-filled sacs called ______________.

Answer 16

alveoli

Question 17

Gas exchange in the lungs occurs in the _____________-_____________ interface.

Answer 17

alveoli-capillary

Question 18

What is pneumonia

Answer 18

When fluid builds up in alveoli preventing O2 exchange.

Question 19

Where is stratified squamous tissue found in the respiratory system?

Answer 19

oral cavity & pharynx

Question 20

Where is pseudostratified ciliated columnar tissue found in the respiratory system?

Answer 20

trachea & bronchi

Question 21

What kind of epithelium tissue is in alveoli that does gas exchange?

Answer 21

simple squamous

Question 22

What allows for the elastic recoil of the lung, which forces oxygen out?

Answer 22

Elastic Fibers

Question 23

What reduces surface tensions with surfactant?

Answer 23

Septal Cells

Question 24

What produces Surfactant?

Answer 24

Septal Cells

Question 25

The movement of air into and out of the lungs is called ___________________ ____________________.

Answer 25

pulmonary ventilation

Question 26

_______________ is an active process that requires contraction of the diaphragm.

Answer 26

Inspiration

Question 27

____________ ___________ is a passive process that happens when the elastic fibers in the lungs cause the lungs to spontaneously recoil when the diaphragm relaxes.

Answer 27

Restful expiration

Question 28

What is described by loss of elasticity and recoil by the lungs?

Answer 28

Emphysema

Question 29

The _____________ of _____________ is a good place to hear the lung sounds without interference from the heart

Answer 29

triangle of auscultation

Question 30

__________ _____________: volume of air inhaled and exhaled normally at rest

Answer 30

tidal volume

Question 31

_______________ ______________ _________________: volume of air that can be inhaled BEYOND tidal volume

Answer 31

Inspiratory reserve volume

Question 32

_______________ ________________ ________________: volume of air that can be exhaled BEYOND tidal volume

Answer 32

Expiratory reserve volume

Question 33

____________ ____________: volume air that remains in the lungs, even after forceful exhalation

Answer 33

Residual volume

Question 34

____________ _____________: Maximal volume that can be inhaled and exhaled

Answer 34

Vital capacity