Respiratory System

5. involves both bringing air into the lungs (inhalation) and releasing air to the atmosphere
6. septum A wall of cartilage divides the nose into 2 separate chambers.
9. tiny air sacs in your lungs that take up the oxygen you breathe in and keep your body going.
10. the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords in humans and other mammals; the voice box.
11. he network of organs and tissues that help you breathe

1. each of a pair of serous membranes lining the thorax and enveloping the lungs in humans and other mammals.
2. the process by which cells derive energy from glucose.
3. specialized organelles that provide the force necessary to transport foreign materials in the respiratory tract
4. a long, U-shaped tube that connects your larynx (voice box) to your lungs.
6. the part projecting above the mouth on the face of a person
7. a cavity within a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities.
8. any of the major air passages of the lungs which diverge from the windpipe.