Respiratory System: Important Parts
Two organs that remove oxygen from the air and pass it into your blood
What are the lungs?
Pump that makes blood circulate
What is the heart?
Cells use this gas in the production of energy
What is oxygen?
Coronary, pulmonary and systemic
What are the three types of circulation?
Muscle that helps your lungs pull in air and push it out
What is the diaphragm?
Tubes that transport blood throughout the body
What are the blood vessels?
This gas is transported in the bloodstream to the lungs where it is ultimately removed from the body through exhalation
What is carbon dioxide?
To move blood throughout the body
What is the function of the circulatory system?
Tubes at the bottom of your windpipe that connect into each lung
What are bronchial tubes?
Fluid that carries the oxygen and nutrients vital to the function of the body, as well as the waste that needs to be removed.
What is blood?
To extract oxygen from the air, so our cells make energy and to expel carbon dioxide.
Why do we breathe?
This type of circulation delivers nutrients and oxygen to cells all around the body
What is systemic circulation?
Tiny hairs in the bronchial tubes that move in a wave-like motion to filter dust and other irritants out of your airways
What are cilia?
Blood vessels that deliver oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the tissues of the body
What are arteries?
Cilia moves this up and out of the airways
What is debris/dust/microbes?
This type of circulation adds oxygen to blood
What is pulmonary circulation?
Tiny air sacs in the lungs at the end of the bronchi where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place
Alveoli
Organs that remove waste products and excess fluid from the body
What are the kidneys?
When the diaphragm does this, the air pressure drops and air rushes into the lungs
What is contract?
Heart - arteries - capillaries - veins - heart
What is the (ordered) pathway for the blood?