Spot the wrong words
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement parts
- The main drive
- to breathe
- is a fall
- in blood oxygen
- Correction
- a rise in carbon dioxide
- Incorrect part
- in blood oxygen
- Statement parts
- Pulmonary surfactant
- is secreted
- by type I
- alveolar cells
- Correction
- by type II
- Incorrect part
- by type I
- Statement parts
- Intrapleural pressure
- sits about
- 4 mm Hg
- above alveolar pressure
- Correction
- below alveolar pressure
- Incorrect part
- above alveolar pressure
- Statement parts
- The right lung
- holds two lobes
- kept apart
- by fissures
- Correction
- holds three lobes
- Incorrect part
- holds two lobes
- Instructions
- Tap the part of each line that makes it wrong.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology, section 22.3 The Process of Breathing_