Respiratory Parts
What is the phraynx?
what is the heart?
The respiratory system allows us to do this
What is breathing/to breathe?
Air enters through this part of your body
What is the nose or mouth?
what is to inhale?
A small flap that closes when you swallow is called this
what is an epiglottis?
a liquid tissue that circulates throughout the body
what is blood?
This part warms and moistens the air that enters your body
What are nostrils?
The right side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs to pick up this
What is oxygen?
You bring this to send carbon dioxide out of the body
what is exhale?
Also known as your voice box
what is the larynx?
are tubes that carry blood throughout the body
what are blood vessels?
This part trap dust and dirt by waving back and forth
What is cilia?
Blood with oxygen travels back to this side of the heart
what is the left?
controls breathing and separates the chest from your belly
what is the diaphragm?
Also known as the windpipe
What is the trachea?
the two chambers on top of the heart
what is an atrium?
a blood vessel that carries oxygen rich blood AWAY from the heart to the body's cells
What are arteries?
After pumping oxygenated blood to the rest of the body, the blood travels back to the this side of the heart
what is the right?
this type of blood cell carries oxygen to body's cells
what are red blood cells?
bronchi split into smaller tubes called
What are bronchioles?
the two chambers at the bottom of your heart
What are ventricles?
Tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins
What are capillaries?
these air sacs is where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place
what is the alveoli?
These type of blood vessels carry oxygen-poor blood back to the heart
what are veins?