WSCS 8th grade Anatomy 2
Across
- 2. as Emerson put it - the 'muscle of the lungs'
- 4. microscopic plants that are the basis of the food chain in the ocean
- 7. the smaller branches of the air tubes in the lungs
- 10. the movement of a fixed amount of carbon through the earth's ecosystem
- 12. the air tube in our body
- 13. energy + water + Carbon Dioxide---> oxygen + water + sugar(glucose)
- 17. the greenhouse gas we are most concerned about in the news
- 18. sacs on each side of the heart that fill with air as we breathe
- 19. another name for our vocal cords
- 20. clusters of tiny air sacs surrounded by capillaries- where blood comes in contact with air
Down
- 1. root words mean carbon and water; made up of glucose
- 3. the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels
- 5. cells that look like flattened disks that contain hemoglobin
- 6. the organ that prevents food and liquids form entering the trachea
- 8. tiny hairs the line the sinuses and tubes of the respiratory system and help clean it and move mucous out
- 9. crude oil and natural gas that formed over thousands of years from tons of plant material under the earth
- 11. the function of life involving the exchange of gasses
- 14. cavities in the skull that receive air through the nose- cleaning,warming and moisturizing it.
- 15. the two tubes that branch off of the trachea joining it to the lungs
- 16. yellowish fluid that carry the other cells in blood