Internal vs. External
This type of respiration is the physcial process of breathing air in and out of your body.
What is external respiration?
This main windpipe connects your throat to your lungs.
What is the trachea?
What is oxygen?
This muscle is incharge of facilitating gas exchange.
What are the lungs/
This is why you switch what nostril is breathing more.
What is making the load even?
This type of respiration happens inside cells to turn glucose and oxygen into energy (ATP).
What is internal respiration?
What is the larynx?
Cellular respiration takes place inside this specific powerhouse organelle.
What is the mitochondrion?
What is the name of the protector of your lungs that expands when we breathe?
What is the ribcage?
This is the reason for one lung containing only two lobes (compared to three), making it smaller than the right.
What is making room for the heart?
The specific waste product created by cells during internal respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
These two large tubes branch off from the trachea to lead air into each lung.
What are the bronchi?
This is the abbreviation for the main chemical energy molecule produced by cells.
What is ATP?
This is the name of the hollow space inside your nose that warms and wets the air we breathe.
What is the nasal cavity?
This is the space that would be covered if you stretched all of your alveoli out.
What is half a tennis court?
This is the scientific name for the throat.External respiration enables gas diffucion at the interface of the blood and is part of the lung.
What is the alveolar membrane?
This is the scientific name for the throat, which carries both food and air.
What is the pharynx?
What is glucose?
These are the specific muscles between your ribs that help to expand the chest when breathing.
What are intercostal muscles?
This is the number of breaths needed to keep going through a day.
What is 22,000 breaths?
This whole process moves air into and out of your lungs to swap carbon dioxide and oxygen.
What is the ventilation cycle?
These are the tiny, microscopic branches that split off from the bronchi and lead to the air sacs.
What are bronchioles?
This specific gas is a waste product made by your cells that your blood carries back to the lungs to be exhaled.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the dome-shaped muschle located right beneath your lungs that moves up and down to help you breathe.
What is the diaphragm?
This is the reason for a mirror to fog when breathed on.
What is exhaling half a liter of water daily?