Health Science Therapeutic Lungs

Where are the lungs located?

• In the chest cavity behind the ribs

• behind the hips

• Behind the spinal cord

• below the heart

Another name for your trachea

• voice box

• windpipe

• breathing tube

Your lungs are about the size of a

• baseball

• soccer ball

• football

• basketball

Asthma narrows the breathing tubes, making it harder to breathe

• true

• false

What is the only part of your body that can float

• heart

• belly

• head

• lungs

Check the 2 compounds that you inhale and exhale

• CO2-Air

• O2-CO2

• Carbon Monoxide

• Air - CO2

Approx. how many times do we breathe a day?

• 2000

• 23,000

• 32,000

• enough so we can live, unless we hold our breathe

The nasal cavity does all the following except

• moisten the air we breathe

• filter out foreign particles in the air

• Helps us smell

• helps us whistle

The trachea branches into the

• lungs

• bronchi

• windpipe

• pharynx

Our 2 lungs have how many lobes together?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6