Human Breathing Quiz

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1. What is inhalation?

Breathing in

Breathing out

Breathing in and out

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2. 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 ____________

Face to squeeze out the food

Stomach, right over where their diaphragm is

3. 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)

Albeonis

Abolonis

Alveoli

4. Which is the correct order for breathing in. Air goes...

In the mouth or nose, down the trachea (windpipe) into the lungs

In the mouth or nose, down the oesophagus and into the lungs

In the mouth or nose, down the oesophagus and into the stomach

Out of the lungs and up the trachea and out the mouth or nose

5. When your diaphragm is relaxed the air gets _________ __________ of your lungs

Pushed around

Pushed out

Pulled out

6. What is the name of the sheet of muscle that contracts when you breathe in?

The diagram

The diastole

The diaphragm

The diaphram

7. When the diagphragm contracts the space in the chest (the chest cavity) ____________, and air gets sucked in.

Increases

Decreases

Stays the same

8. Why would we breathe faster?

The brain gets a message through the nervous system that the carbon dioxide level in the blood is too high

The blood tells the lungs to work harder

9. When the diaphragm relaxes, it ____________ back _______

Pushes down

Pushes up

Pulls down

Pulls up

10. When you ventilate something you

Get air to the surfaces

Get air into the surfaces

Get air to the surfaces and away from them again

Get air to the blood

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