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Human Physiology, 7/e
Stuart I Fox, Pierce College

Respiratory Physiology

True/False Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

Internal respiration refers to gas exchanges that occur between alveolar air and the blood. (p. 482)
A)True
B)False
2

Gas exchange between the lungs and the blood, and between the blood and tissue fluid, is an active transport process. (p. 482)
A)True
B)False
3

Some of the bronchioles participate in gas exchange between air and blood. (p. 482)
A)True
B)False
4

Inserting a tube into the trachea to permit breathing is called a tracheostomy. (p. 485)
A)True
B)False
5

Regardless of the temperature of the environmental air, inspired air has a temperature of 37°C by the time it reaches the alveoli. (p. 485)
A)True
B)False
6

The alveoli have ciliated cells in them to help expel dust particles that make it this far down into the respiratory tract. (p. 485)
A)True
B)False
7

There is no real space in the pleural cavity of a healthy individual. (p. 485)
A)True
B)False
8

Intrapulmonary pressure must be greater than atmospheric pressure for air to enter the lungs. (p. 492)
A)True
B)False
9

Normal inspiration is possible only because the lungs are highly elastic. (p. 488)
A)True
B)False
10

It normally requires no muscular effort to exhale. (p. 491)
A)True
B)False
11

Pneumothorax usually involves the collapse of only one lung. (p. 488)
A)True
B)False
12

Thanks to the surface tension exerted by water in the alveoli, the alveoli normally do not collapse when one exhales. (p. 488)
A)True
B)False
13

Even after exhaling as forcefully as possible, one still has air in the lungs. (p. 489)
A)True
B)False
14

A newborn infant must generate 15-20 times as much transpulmonary pressure to inflate the lungs in the first breath as in subsequent breaths. (p. 490)
A)True
B)False
15

The internal intercostal muscles are not required for normal, relaxed respiration. (p. 491)
A)True
B)False
16

Asthma greatly reduces the vital capacity of the lungs. (p. 494)
A)True
B)False
17

One should be able to forcibly expel 80% or more of the vital capacity in one second. (p. 494)
A)True
B)False
18

Bronchoconstriction due to cigarette smoke or air pollution will lower the FEV1.0 but will not lower the vital capacity. (p. 494)
A)True
B)False
19

Cessation of breathing is called hypoventilation. (p. 493)
A)True
B)False
20

Epinephrine can be used to treat an asthmatic attack without the danger of also overstimulating the heart. (p. 494)
A)True
B)False
21

Strenuous exercise has no significant effect on the PO2 of the arterial blood. (p. 499)
A)True
B)False
22

The resistance to pulmonary circulation drops sharply at the time of birth. (p. 500)
A)True
B)False
23

In adults, pulmonary blood pressure is lower than systemic blood pressure. (p. 500)
A)True
B)False
24

Systemic arterioles generally dilate in response to low PO2, but pulmonary arterioles constrict. (p. 500)
A)True
B)False
25

In a standing person, the alveoli located at the apex of the lung are better ventilated (in liters per minute) than the alveoli found at the base of the lung. (p. 500)
A)True
B)False
26

Hyperventilation substantially increases the PO2 of the blood. (p. 504)
A)True
B)False
27

Hypercapnia is caused by hyperventilation. (p. 504)
A)True
B)False
28

Acidosis affects respiration because hydrogen ions diffuse from the blood to the chemoreceptor neurons of the medulla oblongata, and these neurons are connected to neurons of the rhythmicity center. (p. 504)
A)True
B)False
29

The PO2 of the blood normally has no direct effect on respiration, but does affect the sensitivity of peripheral chemoreceptors to CO2. (p. 505)
A)True
B)False
30

When deoxyhemoglobin (reduced hemoglobin) binds to oxygen, it becomes oxidized hemoglobin. (p. 507)
A)True
B)False
31

When the temperature of a tissue increases through usage, hemoglobin unloads more oxygen to it. (p. 509)
A)True
B)False
32

Fetal hemoglobin, or hemoglobin F does not bind oxygen as well as adult hemoglobin, hemoglobin A. (p. 511)
A)True
B)False
33

Some adults have large amounts of fetal hemoglobin in their blood. (p. 512)
A)True
B)False
34

In its passage through the alveolar capillaries, a red blood cell gives up chloride ions and carbon dioxide. (p. 513)
A)True
B)False
35

Acidosis is a state in which the blood and tissue fluid have an acidic pH. (p. 515)
A)True
B)False
36

Metabolic and respiratory alkalosis and acidosis have completely different causes, so a pH imbalance due to respiratory causes cannot be compensated (corrected) for by metabolic adjustments or vice versa. (p. 515)
A)True
B)False
37

Pulmonary ventilation increases during exercise due to stimulation of peripheral chemoreceptors by the extra CO2 produced. (p. 515)
A)True
B)False
38

At the outset of exercise, pulmonary ventilation increases even more before there is a need for it. (p. 516)
A)True
B)False
39

Athletes conditioned for endurance are able to use more of the oxygen available in the blood stream than unconditioned people. (p. 518)
A)True
B)False
40

Hemoglobin binds the same amount of oxygen without respect to altitude, so the fatigue of unconditioned people at high altitudes must be due to some other cause. (p. 517)
A)True
B)False
41

People conditioned to high altitudes have higher hemoglobin concentrations than people conditioned to low altitudes. (p. 518)
A)True
B)False