Across
- 3. Maintaining the trachea's mechanical stability.
- 4. Bringing oxygen into our bodies and sending carbon dioxide out.
- 6. A process by which gases travel from a high-pressure region to a low-pressure one.
- 8. Cellular respiration is a metabolic pathway that uses glucose to produce adenosine triphosphate an organic compound the body can use for energy.
- 12. Muscles between the ribs.
- 14. Two small muscles that have a moist covering, within the larynx.
- 15. A large airway that leads from the trachea to a lung.
- 16. The neck's internal hollow tube, which begins behind the nose and terminates at the top of the trachea and oesophagus.
Down
- 1. A protein found inside red blood cells that transports carbon dioxide out of the body and oxygen from bodily tissues and organs.
- 2. A tiny branch of air tubes in the lungs.
- 5. The flap that covers the trachea during swallowing so that food does not enter the lungs.
- 7. Tiny air sacs at the end of the bronchioles.
- 9. Process or act of breathing in, taking air and sometimes other substances into your lungs.
- 10. One of two organs in the chest that eliminates carbon dioxide from the body and provides oxygen to it.
- 11. The airway that connects the bronchi to the larynx (voice box).
- 13. The region of the throat where the vocal chords are located and where breathing, swallowing, and talking take place.