Respiratory System
Another word for your windpipe
What is a trachea?
The number of chambers in the heart?
206
What is the number of bones in the skeletal system?
Where you inhale and exhale air
What is the mouth and nose?
The gas that leaves the body when you exhale
What is carbon dioxide or CO2?
Structure in the heart and veins that prevent the backflow of blood.
What are valves?
What is the main function of the muscular system?
The flap that covers your trachea when you swallow
Epiglottis
The act of breathing air in
What is inhalation?
Right and Left Atrium and Right and Left Ventricle
What are the names of the chambers of the heart?
To help you move, to protect your internal organs, and to produce red blood cells in bone marrow
What is the function of the skeletal system?
The tube that runs from your mouth to your stomach
What is the esophagus?
The two large tubes at the end of the trachea
What are bronchi/bronchus?
The largest vein bringing deoxygenated blood to the heart.
What is the vena cava?
Where bones meet and are attached by ligaments
What are the joints?
Breaks food down in the stomach
What are gastric juices?
A dome-shaped muscle under the lungs
What is the diaphragm?
The circulation that is between the heart and the organs of the body.
What is systemic circulation?
The rib cage protects what?
Heart, lungs
Food travels here after leaving the stomach
Where is the small intestines?
We sneeze or cough when this happens
Unwanted particles get in our airways
The organ that allows oxygen to get into the blood
What are the lungs?
Where is the smallest bone in the body
Inner ear (stirrup)?
Liquid that breaks down food in your mouth
The tiny air sacs at the end of each bronchiole
What are alveoli?
The largest artery and the one under the greatest pressure in the human body.
What is the aorta?
The bone that protects your brain
What is the skull?
Part of the digestive tract that absorbs water
What are the large intestines?
This lines the inside of the trachea
Cilia
Vessels on the heart muscle that supplies the heart with oxygen.
What are coronary arteries?
This connects muscle to bone
Tendons
The organ that produces bile
This is why the right lung larger than the left lung
Because the heart is on the left side
Vessels where gas exchange occurs.
What are capillaries?
Bands of tissue that connect one bone to another bone
What are ligaments?
The organ that stores bile
What is the gallbladder?
The number 1 way to damage the entire respiratory system
What is smoking?
The last chamber that the blood flows through in the heart
What is the left ventricle?
This muscle helps your lungs exhale air
diaphragm
The part of the body that absorbs vitamins and minerals
What are the small intestines?