Functions
What is the organ that allows air to enter and exit your body, and give oxygen to your body, through the nasal cavity.
What is the nose?
Typically called the windpipe, this structure connects the larynx to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
You have two of these pink structures inside of your chest.
What are the lungs?
What is maintaining oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood?
The main purpose of the respiratory system in homeostasis.
What organs function is to filter, warm, and moisten inhaled air?
What is the nasal cavity?
What part of an organ is a passageway that carries air to and from your lungs.
What are bronchi?
These curved bones form a cage around your lungs to protect them from getting damaged or injured.
What is the ribcage?
The gas needed by cells for cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
Aside from breathing, the nose contains receptors for what sense?
What is smell?
The main respiratory organ that pulls in oxygen and expels carbon dioxide
What is the lungs?
What are bronchioles?
This waste gas leaves the blood during exhalation.
What is carbon dioxide?
The organ that forms a passageway for air to travel between the larynx and bronchi
What is the trachea?
The tiny air sacs inside of your lungs that are the centers for gas exchange.
What are alveoli?
Even when you are asleep, this organ keeps sending signals to the lungs to keep breathing.
What is the brain?
Thin walls and capillaries help gases move by this process.
What is diffusion?
Main function of the respiratory system
What is delivering oxygen to blood and removing carbon dioxide?
What is the flap of cartilage prevents food and liquids from entering the lungs during swallowing?
What is the epiglottis?
The left lung is slightly smaller than the right lung in order to fit what organ?
What is the heart?
Your body needs oxygen to work, but it also needs to get rid of this waste product to work.
What is carbon dioxide?