Human Breathing Quiz
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What is inhalation?
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Breathing in
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Breathing out
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Breathing in and out
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Made by Mrs. R. For her 212 students
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If someone is choking on a piece of food in their windpipe, it may be possible to clear their windpipe (trachea) by pushing hard on their ____________
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Face to squeeze out the food
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Stomach, right over where their diaphragm is
Correct Answer
A. Stomach, right over where their diaphragm is -
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What is the name of the air sacs inside your lungs? (The thin-walled sacs that are right next to the blood capillaries so that oxygen can pass from the lungs into the bloodstream, and carbon dioxide can pass out of the bloodstream)
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Albeonis
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Abolonis
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Alveoli
Correct Answer
A. Alveoli -
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Which is the correct order for breathing in. Air goes...
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In the mouth or nose, down the trachea (windpipe) into the lungs
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In the mouth or nose, down the oesophagus and into the lungs
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In the mouth or nose, down the oesophagus and into the stomach
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Out of the lungs and up the trachea and out the mouth or nose
Correct Answer
A. In the mouth or nose, down the trachea (windpipe) into the lungs -
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When your diaphragm is relaxed the air gets _________ __________ of your lungs
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Pushed around
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Pushed out
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Pulled out
Correct Answer
A. Pushed out -
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What is the name of the sheet of muscle that contracts when you breathe in?
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The diagram
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The diastole
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The diaphragm
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The diaphram
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A. The diaphragm -
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When the diagphragm contracts the space in the chest (the chest cavity) ____________, and air gets sucked in.
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Increases
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Decreases
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Stays the same
Correct Answer
A. Increases -
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Why would we breathe faster?
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The brain gets a message through the nervous system that the oxygen level in the blood is too high; then the brain tells the diaphragm to contract more often
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The brain gets a message through the nervous system that the carbon dioxide level in the blood is too high
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The blood tells the lungs to work harder
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The brain gets a message through the nervous system that the carbon dioxide level in the blood is too high; then the brain tells the diaphragm to contract more often
Correct Answer
A. The brain gets a message through the nervous system that the carbon dioxide level in the blood is too high; then the brain tells the diaphragm to contract more often -
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When the diaphragm relaxes, it ____________ back _______
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Pushes down
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Pushes up
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Pulls down
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Pulls up
Correct Answer
A. Pushes up -
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When you ventilate something you
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Get air to the surfaces
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Get air into the surfaces
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Get air to the surfaces and away from them again
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Get air to the blood
Correct Answer
A. Get air to the surfaces and away from them again -
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