Across
- 3. The part of your body that gives you the ability to speak.
- 6. Bronchioles fan out to create these little spaces where air enters the alveoli. TWO WORDKS
- 7. The part of the pharynx that is closest to your mouth.
- 9. The last part of the pharynx.
- 11. The condition that occurs when your bronchi are swollen, usually because of an infection.
- 12. Very small, thin-walled tubes that carry air to where the lungs can finally use it.
- 14. Mucus producing tissues, found in many parts of your body. TWO WORDS
- 17. The uppermost part of the pharynx. It is connected to the inner ear.
- 18. Another name for the larynx. TWO WORDS
- 19. The long muscle below your lungs. It helps you breathe in and out.
Down
- 1. A small pink projection hanging downward from you soft palate.
- 2. Tiny motorized "whips" waving back and forth on the cells lining the back of your nose and throughout much of the respiratory tract.
- 4. A space in your head where much of the dust, pollen, bacteria and other stuff in the air you breathe is filtered out. TWO WORDS
- 5. The system that enables you to breathe; your noese, trachea, and lungs are a few of the parts of this system. TWO WORDS
- 8. Balloon-like sacs in the lungs that allow the oxygen you need to pass easily from the air you inhale into the blood stream.
- 10. Air passes through these structures in your nasal cavity where it is cleaned, moistened and brought to the correct temperature.
- 13. Holes in your skull that aid in the warming, moisturizing and filtering of the air you breathe. TWO WORDS
- 15. The two tubes that branch out from the trachea.
- 16. "strings" or strips of tissue that are pulled tightly across your larynx. They vibrate as air blows by, giving you the ability to make sounds. TWO WORDS
- 20. Air passes thorugh the three parts of this structure on its way down the trachea.
