respiratory system study guide

What are the structures within the respiratory system?

What are the structures between the upper vs. lower respiratory tract?

What are the structures and differences between conducting and respiratory portion of the respiratory system?

What is ventilation and what types of ventilation are there?

What is respiration and the types of respiration?

Functions of respiratory system?

What is the nose?

What structure allows air to enter the nose?

What is the nasal cavity and what structures do you find in there and their functions?

What are the paranasal sinuses and what do they do?

What is the pharynx and its function?

What are the three parts of the pharynx and their structures found in each part with their functions?

What are the types of epithelium for each part of the pharynx?

What is the larynx and its function?

What are the cartilages that make up the larynx and their location and function?

What is the glottis and what does it contain?

What is the difference between true vs. false vocal cords?

What is the trachea? Where is it located compared to esophagus?

What is the trachea? Where is it located compared to the esophagus?

What are the layers of the trachea and what type of tissue is in each layer?

What is the structure that divides into the two primary bronchi?

What is the bronchial tree and the type of tissue it contains?

What occurs as we go further down the bronchial tree?

How are bronchioles different from the bronchi?

What types of bronchioles are there and how are they different?

What are alveolar ducts and its type of tissue?

What are alveolar sacs?

What are alveoli and its function?

What types of cells are found in the alveoli and their functions?

What is the respiratory membrane and what structures forms it? What is it function?

What are the structures found on the lung?

What are the surfaces of the lung and what structures do you find in there and why?

How many lobes are in each lung and what spaces divide them?

Divisions of the lungs are supplied by what part of the respiratory tract?

What are the pleurae and function?

What are the layers fo the pleurae and the potential space between them?

What is Boyle’s Law and how does that affect air flow into/out of the lungs?

What muscles contract when you are at rest?

Which muscles contract when you are at rest?

Which muscles contract during forceful ventilation?

What muscles contract during expiration?

Where are the respiratory control centers located at?

What do the chemoreceptors measure? Which ones will regulate breathing most of the time?

What are the different types of chemoreceptors and where are they found?

Which nerves transmit infromation to control centers?