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Card 16

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the main airway, supported by incomplete rings of cartilage, which carries warm moist air down from the nasal cavity into the chest.

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Card 17

Front

fluid found at the ends of the tracheoles in insects that helps control the surface area available for gas exchange and water loss.

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Card 18

Front

is the total volume of air inhaled in one minute. Ventilation rate = tidal volume × breathing rate (per minute).

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Card 19

Front

volume of air that can be breathed in when the strongest possible exhalation is followed by the deepest possible intake of breath.

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