The Respiratory System
Across
- 3. When you inhale your lungs ______, when you exhale they deflate
- 6. As you inhale, this flattens to give your lungs room to inflate
- 7. Also known as the voice box
- 8. Instrument used to measure respiratory volumes and capacities
- 9. Lung collapse due to plugged bronchioles
- 14. Hairs that keep mucus and dirt out of the lungs
- 15. you breathe in oxygen and breathe out this
- 16. Your body can't breathe without this system
- 19. Gases flow into the lungs
- 20. Tiny air sacs in the lungs
Down
- 1. Amount of gas reaching the alveoli
- 2. The tube that connects your mouth and nose to your lungs
- 4. Blood flow reaching the alveoli
- 5. The opening between the vocal folds
- 10. This harms the lungs
- 11. Another term for the trachea
- 12. Inadequate O2 delivery to tissues
- 13. Period of breathing cessation that occurs when PCO2 is abnormally low
- 17. Gases exit the lungs
- 18. The primary organ of the respiratory system