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The respiratory system is responsible for taking in _____ and removing _____ ____ from the body.

oxygen


carbon dioxide

Brain cells begin dying in just ___ minutes with no oxygen. Brain death occurs at ___ minutes.

4


10

The respiratory system allows cellular respiration to occur for ____ production.

ATP

Cellular respiration occurs in the ________.

mitochondria

The mitochondria use _______ and ______ to make ATP (energy).

glucose and oxygen

Cellular respiration also creates _____ ______ which returns to the capillaries > veins > lungs > alveoli to be removed from the body.

carbon dioxide

The trachea allows passage of ___ into the lungs. The trachea is AKA the _________.

air


windpipe

The bronchi (or bronchus) carries air from the _____ to the right and left lung.

trachea

The bronchioles are smaller tubes branching from the ______ that carry air to the _____.

bronchus


alveoli

The alveoli are tiny sacs within our lungs that allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to move between our _____ and the _______.

lungs


bloodstream

The diaphragm is a _____-shaped muscle under the lungs that flattens when it ________ and moves downward.

dome


contracts



The diaphragm contracting has the biggest effect on expanding the _____ ______ which draws air into the lungs.

rib cage