Quiz 1

How is oxygen transported throughout the body?

• Bound to the fe on hemoglobin

• Bound to white blood cells

• Transported freely through the blood

• As a bicarbonate ion

How is carbon dioxide transported throughout the body?

• Bound to the fe on hemoglobin

• Transported as bicarbonate ions in the plasma

• Transported freely through the blood

• Bound to white blood cells

What is the major factor that determines our rate of breathing?

• Our oxygen level in the blood

• Your ph level

• The temperature

• The level of carbon dioxide in the blood

What is the technical term for labored breathing?

• Dyspnea

• Hypoxia

• Anemic hypoxia

• Ischemic hypoxia

Why is lung elasticity important?

• Because you can’t get a full breathe in and out comfortably without it

• You’d die without it

• You could not breathe without a tube

Symptoms of asthma are

Symptoms of chronic bronchitis are

What is the most prevalent type of lung cancer?

• Squamous cell carcinoma

• Adenocarcinoma

• Small cell carcinoma

Which one of these is NOT a formed element

• Erythrocytes

• Platelets

• Leukocytes

• Lymphocytes

What is the blood mostly made up of

• Red blood cells

• White blood cells

• Plasma

• Platelets