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A sheet of muscle at the bottom of the rib cage that expands and contracts as you breathe.
What is the diaphragm?
100
The smallest blood vessels in the body.
What are the capillaries?
100
when we inhale, our _______ moves down.
What is diaphragm?
100
air travels to two tubes through the ___________
What is trachea?
100
a complication that happens when your lungs become infected
What is pneumonia?
200
windpipe
What is the trachea?
200
the tubes that branch from the trachea and lead to the lungs.
What are the bronchi?
200
capillaries give ___________ back to the lungs to be exhaled.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
Once through the larynx, air passes into the _________
What is wind pipe?
200
breathing out
What is exhaling?
300
a single complete act of breathing
What is respiration?
300
smaller tubes that branch off the bronchi
What are bronchioles?
300
Oxygen passes to tiny blood vessels called
What are capillaries?
300
air is warmed and _________ when it enters the nose and mouth.
What is moistened?
300
the amount of oxygen in your lungs does this when you exercise.
What is increase?
400
where the vocal cords are located (voicebox)
What is the larynx?
400
tiny air sacs in lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged
What is the alveoli?
400
air passes down the throat and through the _______
What is voice box (larynx)?
400
tool for measuring the amount of air being inhaled and exhaled?
What is a spirometer?
400
12 - 14 times/minute
What is the number of times we breathe in a minute?
500
Where food and gas pass
What is the pharynx?
500
inflammation in the bronchial tubes
What is bronchitis?
500
mouth to mouth resusciation for someone who stops breathing.
What is CPR?
500
air travels from two tubes into tiny air sacs called ________
What is alveoli?
500
the three main parts of the respiratory system
What is the lungs, trachea, and diaphragm?