Respiratory System Vocabulary Review
Across
- 3. Large, flat muscle at the bottom of the chest cavity that helps with breathing
- 4. A gas needed for cellular respiration that is inhaled through the respiratory system
- 6. structure in the throat containing the vocal cords
- 7. tiny air sac at the end of a bronchiole in the lungs that provides surface area for gas exchange to occur
- 8. tube that connects the larynx to the bronchi; also called the windpipe
Down
- 1. tube at the back of the mouth that serves as a passageway for both air and food; also called the throat
- 2. one of two large tubes in the chest cavity that leads from the trachea to the lungs
- 5. A waste product of cellular respiration that is exhaled from the body