Respiratory System
Across
- 2. Artery that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart.
- 4. Method by which the gas exchange occurs.
- 6. Aka "Voicebox" Conncects the larynx to the bronchi and transports air.
- 7. Aka "the throat" is an air passageway and also used for swallowing food.
- 8. Sticky lubricating substance that helps moisten and protect your respiratory system
- 10. small air-like sacs where gas exchange occurs
- 12. Common respiratory of airway narrowing/inflammation.
- 13. ___ Dioxide is the gas humans exhale as a biproduct of respiration.
- 15. The ___ Cavity sit right behind your nose and helps moisten air you breathe
- 17. Gas humans need to intake for muscle function and basic survival.
- 18. These inside your nose help filter out dust/debris.
- 19. Muscle at the bottom of the chest cavity that's expansion and contraction enables breathing
- 20. Your right lung is divided into 3 of the but your right lung only into 2/
- 21. The smaller branch-like air passages inside your lungs.
Down
- 1. 2 tubes that connect your trachea to each lung
- 2. Respiratory condition when air-sacs fill up with fluid.
- 3. Flap in your throat that keeps food/solids out of your trachea
- 5. Blood vessels that wall the alveoli
- 9. Fastest way for your body to intake the largest amount of air.
- 11. Aka "The windpipe"
- 14. 1 of 2 entrances/exits for air in your nose.
- 16. Largest organ in the respiratory system (You have 2 of them)