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CHAPTER FIVE. THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. RESPIRATION. ENERGY-RELEASING PROCESS THAT IS FUELED BY OXYGEN YOU BREATHE 6 LITERS PER MINUTE REMOVES THE WASTE PRODUCT CARBON DIOXIDE. NOSE AND THROAT. AIR ENTERS THROUGH NOSTRILS – OPENINGS IN THE NOSE IT FLOWS TO THE NASAL CAVITY
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RESPIRATION • ENERGY-RELEASING PROCESS THAT IS FUELED BY OXYGEN • YOU BREATHE 6 LITERS PER MINUTE • REMOVES THE WASTE PRODUCT CARBON DIOXIDE
NOSE AND THROAT • AIR ENTERS THROUGH NOSTRILS – OPENINGS IN THE NOSE • IT FLOWS TO THE NASAL CAVITY • HEATED BY BLOOD VESSELS • MUCUS MOISTENS THE AIR AND TRAPS DUST PARTICLES AND MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS
A FRESH BATCH OF MUCUS IS PRODUCED EVERY 20 MINUTES • CILIA PUSH OLD MUCUS TOWARD THE ESOPHAGUS AND INTO THE STOMACH • HYDROCHLORIC ACID DESTROYS MANY BACTERIA TRAPPED IN THE MUCUS
SNEEZE SOME PARTICLES NEVER MAKE IT PAST THE NOSE BECAUSE THEY ARE SNEEZED OUT
EPIGLOTTIS SMALL FLAP OF TISSUE THAT CLOSES OVER THE ENTRANCE OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM WHEN FOOD AND WATER ARE INGESTED
TRACHEA • KNOWN AS THE WINDPIPE • BUMPS ARE RINGS OF CARTILAGE • FLEXIBLE SO YOU CAN BEND YOUR NECK
RIGID TO KEEP THE AIR PASSAGE OPEN • HELD TOGETHER BY SMOOTH MUSCLE THAT ENABLES THE DIAMETER TO BE CHANGED
MUCUS TRAPS PARTICLES AND BACTERIA THAT MANAGE TO GET PAST THE NOSE • SWEPT OUT OF TRACHEA AND UP TO THE MOUTH OR NOSE BY CILIA • IF PARTICLES COLLECT – YOU COUGH
LARYNX • VOICE BOX – LOCATED AT TOP OF TRACHEA • MADE OF CARTILAGE THAT JETS OUT OF THE NECK (ADAM’S APPLE) • LARGER IN MALES BECAUSE THEY GENERALLY HAVE LESS FAT
VOCAL CORDS • TWO SMALL FOLDS OF TISSUE THAT STRETCH ACROSS THE LARYNX • MUSCLES TIGHTEN TO NARROW THE SLIT BETWEEN THEM
RUSHING AIR MAKES THEM VIBRATE • HIGH VOICE – TIGHTER CORDS-VIBRATE RAPIDLY • LOW VOICE – MORE RELAXED – VIBRATE MORE SLOWLY
PITCH IS DETERMINED BY SIZE OF LARYNX AND LENGTH OF VOCAL CORDS
TONGUE, LIPS, AND TEETH PLUS THE VIBRATION IN THE NASAL CAVITY GIVE YOUR VOICE A SPECIAL QUALITY
BRONCHI TWO TUBES THAT BRANCH OFF OF THE TRACHEA INTO EACH LUNG
WINDPIPE LARYNX BRONCHI
LUNGS • MAIN ORGAN OF RESPIRATION • BRONCHI CONTINUE TO DIVIDE IN THEM
ALVEOLI • SACS AT ENDS OF THE BRONCHIAL TUBES • GATEWAYS FOR OXYGEN INTO THE BODY
600 MILLION IN LUNGS SURROUNDED BY CAPILLARIES • AS AIR ENTERS THE ALVEOLI, OXYGEN SEEPS THROUGH THE THIN WALLS INTO SURROUNDING CAPILLARIES • BLOOD CARRIES IT THROUGHOUT THE BODY • CARBON DIOXIDE IS EXCHANGED IN THE SAME WAY
2400 KILOMETERS OF AIRWAYS FIT INTO THE CHEST CAVITY • CARBON DIOXIDE AND OXYGEN IS EXCHANGED IN A FEW SECONDS
BREATHE YOU BREATHE ABOUT 1 LITER OF AIR EVERY 10 SECONDS AT REST
DIAPHRAGM • DOME-SHAPED MUSCLE • CONTRACTS TO BREATHE IN • ALLOWS CHEST TO EXPAND
EXPANSION ALLOWS MORE ROOM FOR AIR IN YOUR LUNGS • AIR PRESSURE INSIDE DECREASES ALLOWING AIR TO RUSH IN FROM OUTSIDE
EXHALE – DIAPHRAGM RETURNS TO NORMAL • SPACE DECREASES IN CHEST CAVITY • AIR PRESSURE INCREASES • AIR IS FORCED OUT
HICCUP • DIAPHRAGM BECOMES IRRITATED – THE VOCAL CORDS SNAP SHUT • INCREASED LEVELS OF CARBON DIOXIDE WILL CAUSE INVOLUNTARY CONTRACTIONS TO STOP • STOPS THE HICCUPS
EXCRETION PROCESS IN WHICH WASTE IS REMOVED FROM THE BODY
THE KIDNEYS • ACT AS BODY’S FILTER – REMOVES WASTE AND POISONS FROM THE BLOOD • REDDISH BROWN AND SHAPED LIKE KIDNEY BEANS
ONE KIDNEY ON EACH SIDE OF SPINAL COLUMN JUST ABOVE THE WAIST • 1 LITER OF BLOOD IS RECEIVED EACH MINUTE
UREA NITROGEN WASTE FILTERED OUT OF THE BLOOD BY THE KIDNEYS
NEPHRON • WHERE ACTUAL FILTERING TAKES PLACE • MILLIONS OF CHEMICAL FILTERING FACTORIES
CAPSULE • CUP-SHAPED PART OF THE NEPHRON • CARRIES FILTERED MATERIALS TO TINY TWISTING TUBE
MOST NUTRIENTS, SALTS AND WATER ARE REABSORBED • LIQUID REMAINING IS URINE • URINE IS 90% WATER
IF THE BODY DID NOT REABSORB MOST OF THE NUTRIENTS, SALTS AND WATER IT WOULD DIE