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I.

Choose the best answer.


1. What is the respiratory system?
The body's breathing system

The body's system of nerves

The body's food-processing system

The body's blood-transporting system

2. Air can enter the body and travel to the lungs ...
through the mouth and the nose

through the esophagus and gullet

through the windpipe and the pores

through the nose and the nervous system

3. What is the purpose of the little hairs inside the nose?


To fight disease.

They serve no purpose.

To keep dust out of the lungs.

To tickle the nose and cause sneezes.

4. What is another name for the windpipe?


Lungs

Larynx

Trachea

esophagus

5. What happens to the windpipe, or trachea, before it reaches the lungs?


It branches in two directions.

It branches in three directions.

It vibrates and creates sounds.

It closes up so that no oxygen can escape.

6. What important activity takes place in the lungs?


Food is digested.

Liquid waste is filtered from the blood.

Oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide.

The trachea is exchanged for the larynx.

7. Oxygen moves from the lungs into the bloodstream through ...
nerve fibres

a large artery in the heart

small blood vessels in the lungs

a tube in the lungs called the jugular vein

8. When we breathe in, we inhale many gases, including oxygen. What happens to
the gases that the body can't use?
They are exhaled.
They are changed into oxygen by the lungs.
They circulate through the body and are disposed of later.
They are absorbed into the digestive system and
used to create energy.
9.Which organ is made up of air-carrying tubes and tiny sacs?
The brain

The lungs

The stomach

The diaphragm

10. To go on living, the body's cells need food, water, chemicals, and ...
helium

oxygen

vegetables

carbon dioxide

II. Identify the following statements.


1. ___________ is a straw-colored fluid. It is about 90 percent water and 10
percent dissolved gases, salts, nutrients, enzymes, hormones, waste
products, plasma proteins, cholesterol, and other important compounds.
Parts of it help control body temperature, transport substances, and fight
infection.
2. ___________ __________transport oxygen. Blood gets its red color from
the iron in hemoglobin, a
3. ___________ ___________ protein that binds oxygen in the lungs and
releases it in the capillaries.
guard against infection, fight parasites, and attack bacteria.
4. ___________ are cell fragments involved in blood clotting.
5. ___________________is a network of vessels, nodes, and organs that
collects the fluid that leaves the capillaries, screens it for microorganisms,
and returns it to the circulatory system.

III. Directions: Fill in the blanks using the word bank below.

Nasal Septum
Right Lungs

Epiglottis
Alveoli
Larynx
Trachea
Bronchi

Pharynx
Bronchioles

1. _____________________, or small hairs in the nose, entrap and prevent the


entry of larger dirt particles.
2. The _______________________ serves as a common passageway for air and
food.
3. The ______________________, a cartilage lid, covers the opening into the
larynx when food is swallowed.
4. The tube-like passageway which extends from the larynx, passes in front of the
esophagus, and continues to form two bronchi is the ______________________.
5. _______ are the bubble-shaped sacs in the lungs where gas exchange takes
place.

IV. For Questions 15, write T if the statement is true. If the statement is false,
change the underlined word or words to make the statement true.
___________1. Blood helps regulate body temperature and fight infections.
___________2. The human body contains 810 liters of blood.
___________3. Plasma is about 50 percent water.
___________4. Breathing through the mouth is considered as not good as
breathing through the nose.
___________5. Pharynx is also called the voice box.

Find the circulatory


system words
below in the grid to
the left.

1
2
3

6
7

10
11

12

13

14

15

Across

Down

3. The place where nutrients enter the


blood.

1. The heart ___________ blood.

7. The pump in the circulatory system.


8. A small vessel that connects veins and
arteries.

2. The heart, blood, and vessels.


4. Blood in arteries is ____________ red
because it is rich in oxygen.
5. The largest artery in the body.

10. The circulatory system ___________


nutrients, gases, liquids, and heat around
the body.

6. A waste gas that is transported in veins


from the body to the lungs via the heart.

11. The circulatory system transports this,


which helps regulate temperature.

the heart.

12. The liquid in the circulatory system.


13. The place where oxygen enters the
blood and carbon dioxide leaves the
blood.
14. A vessel that moves blood to the
heart.
15. A gas that is transported in arteries
from the lungs to the rest of the body via
the heart.

9. A vessel that moves blood away from

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