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Respiratory Webquest

Respiratory webquest

Whether you're wide awake while prepping for that big date or asleep during your most snooze-worthy afternoon class, you don't have to think about breathing. It's so important to life that it happens automatically. Each day you breathe about 25,000 times, and by the time you're 70 years old, you'll have taken at least 600 million breaths!

If you didn't breathe, you couldn't live. It's one of the most important functions your body performs!

The Task 

You are to complete the following questions as your finished product for this WebQuest.

 

Human Respiratory System Webquest

Use the links provided and answer all questions.

Part A - Activity 22A: The Human Respiratory System

  1. What is the place where the paths of food and air cross?
  2. What is the structure that produces voice sounds?
  3. What is the location of the respiratory surface, where gases are actually exchanged?
  4. What are the fine tubes that carry inhaled air to the alveoli?
  5. What are the tubes that carry exhaled air from the lungs to the trachea?
  6. What is the sheet of muscle that helps air move in and out of the lungs?
  7. What is the windpipe?
  8. What is the place where incoming air is filtered, warmed, and humidified?
  9. What is the place where inhaled oxygen enters the circulatory system?


Part B - What Makes Me Sneeze?

  1. Explain why we sneeze.
  2. What is a "photic sneezer?


Part C- Activity 22B: Transport of Respiratory Gases

  1. What is hemoglobin and what does it do (slide 1)?
  2. How do oxygen molecules reach tissue cells from red blood cells (slide 1)?
  3. What happens to carbon dioxide molecules that are produced by tissue cells (slides 2 & 3)?
  4. How do red blood cells pick up more oxygen (slide 4)?

 


Part D - The Human Respiratory System

1.     Describe the pathway air takes through the respiratory tract.

 

Part E - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_most_carbon_dioxide_transported_in_the_blood

1.       What are the three (3) methods of CO2 transport in the blood?

 

 Part F- http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/cold-and-flu-iq

1.     Only people with low immune systems get the flu. True or False

2.     Does vitamin C and Zinc prevent colds? What do they do?

3.     Some people can get the flu from the flu shot. True or False. Explain

4.     Feed a cold starve a fever. Explain what this means and if it is true.

5.     Drinking milk causes more mucus. True or False

6.     Name some home remedies that will help with a common cold.

Part G-  http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/lungs_noSW.html

1. Why is your left lung smaller than your right? Answer found under "Locate Those Lungs" section.   

2. Explain why smoking tobacco is bad for your lungs and health. Answer found near bottom of page.

 

Take the quiz at:

http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=1&article_set=59359&cat_id=20607.

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Credits: Goldberg Biology http://goldbergbiology.concordcarlisle.wikispaces.net/Human+Respiratory+System+Webquest
27 Oct 2009