Name: ____________________________________________ Date: __________ Period: _____ TOC # _____
Bill Nye – Respiration
Answer the following questions as you watch the video. There will be a review
quiz after the video.
1. In your upper body there is a strong muscle called the ______________________________.
2. When you inhale, your diaphragm goes ______________ and your lungs ______________.
3. When you breathe in, your body gets __________________ from the air.
4. _____________________ is the same chemical that makes candles burn and iron rust.
5. We combine the oxygen with our ________________ to get the energy we need to live.
6. Your _______________________ are full of tiny little passageways like sponges.
7. These ______________________________ allow you to take in a lot of oxygen with each
breath.
8. Your lungs have as much surface area as a ________________________________________.
9. Surface area is how __________________something is.
10. Your lungs are full of tiny passages (sacs) called __________________________________.
11. Your ______________ lung is bigger than your ___________________ _____________________.
12. Your right lung is divided into __________ parts, and your left lung is divided into
_________ parts.
13. Why is your left lung smaller than your right lung? _________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Accumulation of ________________________________ causes pain in your muscles when
you are working “at a level more than your lungs can supply.”
15. Cellular _________________________________ occurs when our cells combine chemicals
in food with oxygen to store energy in a chemical called ___________________
(adenosine triphosphate).
16. Your body uses ______________________ as a sort of ____________________________________.
17. Your body __________________ energy and ____________________ later.
18. When you breathe in, your diaphragm ______________________________ and air _______
___________________________________________________________________________________________.
19. What happens when you relax your diaphragm? ____________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________.
20. We have slime inside our nose and lungs called __________________, which traps
___________________ and _________________ and keeps it from _____________________________.
21. Cigarettes put __________________ and ____________________ into your lungs.
22. Every cell in your body does ___________________________________________________________.
23. Humans _________________ breathe underwater without special equipment, but fish
can get dissolved ______________________ from water using their _______________________.
24. ______________________________________ goes out of fish _________________ into the water.
25. Every time you breathe in, you take in ________________________ molecules of air!
Bill Nye Respiration Review
1. What muscle causes your lungs to fill up with air? ___________________________________
2. What two materials combine to produce energy for respiration?
3. ____________________________ and ___________________________
4. What is the name of the tiny air sacs in the lungs? ___________________________________
5. Which lung is smaller? ___________ Why? _______________________________________________
6. How can you keep your muscles and lungs healthy? _________________________________
7. What causes the pain in your legs if you exercise more than your lungs can
supply? ___________________________________________________________________________________
8. What is the job of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in your cells? _____________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Why doesn’t most dust and smoke get into our lungs? _______________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What harmful substance from cigarettes can get into a person’s lungs? ____________
11. How is respiration in fish the same as in humans? ___________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
12. How is respiration in fish different than in humans? _________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Unscramble the words below to write the equation for cellular respiration
______________ + ______________  ______________ + ______________ ______________ + ______________ + ______________
dofo
genoxy
ergyen
barcon
oxidide
etawr
ehat