Stack the respiratory structures
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Answer
- Respiratory zone
- Question
- Where gas exchange takes place.
- Choices
- Respiratory zone
- Conducting zone
- Answer
- Larynx
- Question
- Connects pharynx to trachea.
- Choices
- Larynx
- Alveolus
- Answer
- Pleurae
- Question
- Encloses the lungs.
- Choices
- Pleurae
- Bronchi
- Answer
- Diaphragm
- Question
- Borders the lungs below.
- Choices
- Diaphragm
- Larynx
- Answer
- Type II cell
- Question
- Secretes pulmonary surfactant.
- Choices
- Type II cell
- Type I cell
- Answer
- Respiratory
- Question
- Smallest type of bronchiole.
- Choices
- Respiratory
- Terminal
- Answer
- Surfactant
- Question
- Reduces alveolar surface tension.
- Choices
- Surfactant
- Mucus
- Instructions
- Tap the right answer to add a block. Too many mistakes and the tower falls.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 22 'The Respiratory System', sections 22.1-22.6_
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