1st LONG QUIZ/1st QUARTER - Grade 9

A type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.

• Artery

• Veins

• Capillaries

• Nerve

When you breathe, your lungs take in ___ and remove ___.

• air/oxygen

• carbon dioxide/waste

• oxygen/carbon dioxide

• waste air

Flap of tissue that covers the opening to the windpipe during swallowing.

• Pharynx

• Epiglottis

• trachea

• Bronchi

The process of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs.

• Inspiration

• Internal Respiration

• Expiration

• External Respiration

A cavity within a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities.

• Sinus

• Pharynx

• Nose

• Larynx

The process of diffusing oxygen from the blood, into the interstitial fluid and into the cells.

• Inspiration

• Internal Respiration

• Expiration

• External Respiration

Which part of the Respiratory System plays a major role in speech?

• Nose

• Larynx

• Pharynx

• Trachea

What is the main function of the respiratory system?

• to provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the body

• to break down food and absorb nutrients

• to bring oxygen to the body

• to remove oxygen from the body and deliver carbon dioxide

Given the following structures:

1. Larynx 2. Nasal cavity 3. Pharynx 4. Trachea

which of the following is the correct order that air would flow during inhalation.

• 1,2,3,4

• 2,1,3,4

• 2,3,1,4

• 4,2,3,1

Two air tubes that branch off the trachea and carry air directly into the lungs.

• Bronchi

• Trachea

• Pharynx

• Alveoli