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The group of organs that work together to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

Respiratory System

What is the main passageway to the respiratory?

Nose

What three things does the nose do to air.

Filters Warms Moistens

Tiny hairs in your nose that filter air are called?

Cilia

Another word for throat?

Pharynx

One of the two sections of the pharynx. Carries food and drink to the stomach.

Esophagus

One of the two sections of the pharynx. Where the vocal cords are located.

Larynx

What covers the entrance to the larynx so that food and drink don't go down it.

Epiglottis

What are vocal cords?

Elastic Bands

What does air flow through to produce a sound.

Vocal Cords

What is affected by how stretched the vocal cords are?

Pitch

What guards the entrance to the trachea?

Larynx

What are the two branches that the trachea splits into?

bronchi

One bronchus connects to each what?

Lung

Each bronchus splits into branches called what?

Bronchioles

Bronchioles split to form small air pouches called what?

Alveoli

Blood vessels that pick up oxeygen and drop off carbon dioxide.

Capillaries

Breathing in.

inhaling

Breathing out.

exhaling

Your body getting and making energy from oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide and water is what?

Respiration

A dome shaped muscle below the lungs that allow breathing.

Diaphragm

The diaphragm does what to inhale?

Inhale

When the diaphragm relaxes, you what?

exhale

Rib muscles that allow movement in lungs, are called _______ muscles.

Inter-coastal

Oxygen is taken in through the what

bloodstream

Oxygen reacts with glucose to make what?

ATP

What disease makes bronchioles narrow, making it hard to breathe.

Asthma

Alveoli are damaged, decreasing lung capacity. One cause of this is smoking.

emphysema