RESPIRATORY SYSTEM CROSSWORD
Across
- 1. The airway that leads from the larynx to the bronchi
- 3. The voice box
- 5. A muscle situated between the ribs
- 6. Connective tissue found around the body
- 7. The branches from the bronchus
- 9. a flap of cartilage located in the throat
- 10. the part of the throat behind the mouth and nasal cavity, and above the oesophagus and trachea The airway that leads from the larynx (voice box) to the bronchi
- 12. A protein inside red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to tissues and organs in the body and carries carbon dioxide back to the lungs.
- 14. two large tubes that carry air from your windpipe to your lungs.
Down
- 2. the process by which organisms use oxygen to break down food molecules to get chemical energy for cell functions
- 4. tiny balloon-shaped structures where the lungs and the blood exchange nutrients in the process of breathing in and breathing out
- 8. the process or act of breathing in
- 9. An expiration of air from the lungs.
- 11. two bands of smooth muscle tissue found in the larynx
- 13. A pair or organs in the chest area