These amazing machines give your body all the oxygen it needs to live. You have two of them.
What are your lungs?
100
Air is inhaled through the ___________, where it is filtered, warmed, and moistened.
What is our nose?
100
During inhalation, we take in ___________ from the air.
What is oxygen?
100
Respiration begins here. You breathe in oxygen and it travels down the throat to the trachea.
What are the mouth and nose?
100
Line 1
What is nose/nasal passage and mouth?
200
These two tubes are connected to the end of the trachea and lead to your two lungs.
What are the bronchial tubes?
200
Tiny tubes carrying blood that are located inside the alveoli.
What are capillaries?
200
The waste product, ____________, is given off in the gas exchange between air and blood in the alveoli.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
This is also known as the windpipe. It brings oxygen into the bronchial tubes.
What is the trachea?
200
Line 2
What is the trachea?
300
A strong sheet-like muscle that is located at the bottom of your chest cavity. It helps you get air in and out of your lungs by moving up and down.
What is the diaphragm?
300
A set of bones that protects your lungs and heart.
What is our rib cage?
300
When the diaphragm contracts, it flattens and creates a vacuum that causes the air to...
What is allows the lungs to fill with air?
300
From the trachea, air enters the bronchus or bronchial tubes. The air continues to be distributed throughout the lungs through these.
What are the bronchioles?
300
Line 3
What is bronchial tubes?
400
Trachea has a flap that does not let these two things go down it.
What is food and water?
400
There are very tiny air sacs on the end of the bronchial tubes.They look like bunches of grapes. This is where the oxygen from the air enters your blood.