Breathing
God designed your respiratory system to include what?
Nose, trachea, and lungs
God designed you so that most of the air that you take in passes through your What?
Nose
Let’s try that now take in 4 deep breaths through your mouth and now 4 through your nose. Which one felt more comfortable?
Your nose leads to your nasal cavity which has been specially designed to filter out a lot of the other stuff in the air and it warms and moisturizes the air you breathe.
What do you call the teeny tiny motorized whips waving back and forth on the cells lining the back of your nose?
Cilia
They are constantly moving the mucus that has particles stuck to it towards your mouth where it can be swallowed and then destroyed by your stomach acid.
Why do we sneeze?
When our nasal passages gets irritated
What do you call the part of your body that gives you the ability to speak?
Larynx
Also called your voice box
How many times do most kids breathe in a minute?
18 times, around 1,440 a day
Your nasal passages and the tubes that go to your lungs help protest these?
Very delicate cells
As the air travels up your nose it hits your what?
Conchae (kong’ kee)
If you have a cold and the intruders are not removed by your runny nose, what can happen?
You can develop an infection.They can make your feel bad and sometimes you need antibiotics when they don’t go away on their own.
Your larynx has a pair of _____ that can vibrate as air blows by.
Strings
What else do you breathe besides Oxygen when you take a breath?
Nitrogen (78%)
Other gases including Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen is only about 21%
What do you have in your nose to protect your lungs?
(Tiny hairs) to trap large particles of dust that you breathe in.
Let’s look at the in a mirror now
What does your Conchae do?
It interrupts the air flow making sure that the air passing through your nasal cavity is cleaned, moistened, and brought to the correct temperature.
How fast does a sneeze travel?
Around 100mph at hurricane-speed wind sending millions of tiny particles (‘including viruses) into the atmosphere, where they can spread around.
What are the strings in your Larynx called?
Water vapor in the air is called?
Humidity
In addition to hair what other safeguard did god design to keep dust and other bad things out of your lungs?
Mucus
The stuff that doesn’t belong in your lungs sticks to it and you can blow it out.
As the air hits the wall of your nose it gets _____ by the warm tissues found there.
Heated/warmed
After the air goes through your sinus cavities it travels down through your neck through your?
Pharynx. (far’ingks)
Why do you think men have lower voices than women?
Men tend to have longer, thicker vocal cords which produce lower voices.
There are other things in the air besides water that are not so great for our environment or our bodies. What do they include?
Dust, viruses, bacteria, pollen grains, fungi, and many different chemicals
What do You call the special kinds of tissue that produce mucus?
Mucous Membranes
After the air passes through the nasal cavity, some of it travels into the holes in your head called your what?
Sinus cavities
How many parts does the Pharynx have?
3
What do the empty spaces in your head do for your voice?
The empty spaces in your chest, mouth and skull amplify your voice so that people can hear you. They cause echos and makes your voice sound louder.