Respiratory System Test Review Name

Respiratory System Test review Name:

1. How does the diaphragm change during inhalation? Exhalation?

2. What is the path of air into the lungs? – Name all the structures along the way

3. Where does the gas exchange actually occur? (there are two places)

4. What is the function of the cilia in the respiratory tract? The mucus lining?

5. What is the function of the respiratory system?

6. Where does the carbon dioxide originate from that we breathe out?

7. How do you take respiration rates and how would the amount of oxygen available in the air affect that rate?

8. How do the respiration and pulse rates of an athletic person differ from a non-athletic person?

9. How does air pressure affect the ability to breath? (How does it cause air to enter and leave the lungs?)

10. What is the function of the pleura membranes that surround the lungs and what will occur if they are punctured?

11. Explain how the respiratory and circulatory system depends on one another or work together.

12. What is the function of the epiglottis?

13. Why are male voices deeper than female voices (this is in reference to the physical structure of the vocal cords)?

14. How is ventilation different from respiration?

15. Why does mouth to mouth resuscitation work? (Remember this deal with the amount of oxygen in your breath, and how much goes into the blood.)

16. When you take some ones pulse and respiration rate, the numbers that you count are as follows: 6 breaths, 40 pulses. What is the patient’s true respiration and pulse rate?

17. What is the function of the nasal conchae? (This is the walls inside the nasal cavity.)

18. What is the function of the cartilage rings in the trachea?

19. Know the difference between the different types of volumes of the lungs. (Vital capacity, tidal volume, the reserve volumes, and the residual volume)

20. Articles: Don’t forget to go research about Asthma and tracheostomies.

- Asthma –

1. What does asthma do to your lungs?

2. What are some of the common triggers?

3. Explain how the air flow changes once a trigger is introduced?

4. How does an inhaler help and what are the long term medicines for this condition?

- Tracheostomies –

1. Why are Tracheotomies done?

2. What are some of the risks, long term and short term?

3. How is the procedure performed?

4. What is the prognosis of someone who now has a tracheostomy?

21. Explain emphysema.

22. Be able to label the respiratory system.