Vocab
The official name for the breathing system
What is the Respiratory System?
When you breath out carbon dioxide, you ________
What is exhale?
The reversed process of exhaling
What is inhaling?
irritation to the lining of your nose that is violently released?
what is a sneeze?
The windpipe, leads to the the lungs
What is the Trachea?
The tiny hairlike structures
What is cilia?
The strong curved muscle attached below the lungs to the lower ribs and backbone
What is the Diaphragm?
Carries oxygen to every cell in your body
What is blood?
irritation to the lining of your mouth that is violently released?
What is a cough?
Voice Box, contains vocal cords
What is the Larynx?
soft bands made of cartilage and small muscles and is stretched across the larynx
what are vocal chords?
When you breath in oxygen, you _________
What is inhale?
Where gas exchange occurs.
What are alveoli?
diaphragm muscles contracts quickly and causes short breaths of air
what is a hiccup?
Lines the nasal passages, trachea, and bronchi's
What is Cilia?
two saclike organs that replace the carbon dioxide in your blood with oxygen
what are lungs?
Another name for "breathing"
what is respiration?
When air is exhaled, it goes upward from the lungs, then trachea, and pushed through the __________
What are Vocal Cords?
sound caused by air that cannot move freely and causes parts of the mouth and throat to vibrate and hit together
what is a snore?
Helps the diaphragm by changing space and pressure inside your body to allow you to breath.
What are Chest Muscles?
tiny air sacs
what are alveoli's?
the throat
What is the Pharynx?
Closes when you swallow
What is the epiglottis?
what are tiny blood vessels that carry the oxygen to every cell in your body?
what are capillaries?
Hiccups are caused by the involuntary movement of what muscle?
What is the diaphragm?