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The group of organs that work together to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. |
Respiratory System |
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What is the main passageway to the respiratory? |
Nose |
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What three things does the nose do to air. |
Filters Warms Moistens |
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Tiny hairs in your nose that filter air are called? |
Cilia |
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Another word for throat? |
Pharynx |
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One of the two sections of the pharynx. Carries food and drink to the stomach. |
Esophagus |
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One of the two sections of the pharynx. Where the vocal cords are located. |
Larynx |
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What covers the entrance to the larynx so that food and drink don't go down it. |
Epiglottis |
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What are vocal cords? |
Elastic Bands |
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What does air flow through to produce a sound. |
Vocal Cords |
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What is affected by how stretched the vocal cords are? |
Pitch |
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What guards the entrance to the trachea? |
Larynx |
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What are the two branches that the trachea splits into? |
bronchi |
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One bronchus connects to each what? |
Lung |
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Each bronchus splits into branches called what? |
Bronchioles |
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Bronchioles split to form small air pouches called what? |
Alveoli |
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Blood vessels that pick up oxeygen and drop off carbon dioxide. |
Capillaries |
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Breathing in. |
inhaling |
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Breathing out. |
exhaling |
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Your body getting and making energy from oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide and water is what? |
Respiration |
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A dome shaped muscle below the lungs that allow breathing. |
Diaphragm |
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The diaphragm does what to inhale? |
Inhale |
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When the diaphragm relaxes, you what? |
exhale |
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Rib muscles that allow movement in lungs, are called _______ muscles. |
Inter-coastal |
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Oxygen is taken in through the what |
bloodstream |
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Oxygen reacts with glucose to make what? |
ATP |
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What disease makes bronchioles narrow, making it hard to breathe. |
Asthma |
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Alveoli are damaged, decreasing lung capacity. One cause of this is smoking. |
emphysema |