The Respiratory System
Across
- 2. Breathe in.
- 5. Another name for the voicebox.
- 7. Another name for the windpipe.
- 11. Breathe out.
- 14. A flap that prevents food and drinks from going into your lungs when you swallow.
- 15. This condition produces inflammation and infection of the alveoli.
Down
- 1. The circulatory system that transports oxygen all over the body.
- 3. Pertaining to the nose.
- 4. Two extensions of the windpipe that shuttle air to and from the lungs.
- 6. You are said to be______when your voicebox becomes infected.
- 8. Tiny structures located within the lungs through which the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place.
- 9. This gas is transferred into the blood stream within the lungs.
- 10. The gas is transferred out of the bloodstream within the lungs.
- 12. A thin, dome-shaped muscle that separates the lungs from the abdomen.
- 13. This organ pumps the oxygenated blood all around the body. ( it is not really a part of the respiratory system)