Across
- 2. Muscle that helps your lungs pull in air and push it out
- 3. Two organs that remove oxygen from the air and pass it into your blood.
- 4. Lung capacity decreases as you get older.
- 6. Passage connecting your throat and lungs.
- 8. Small branches of the bronchial tubes that lead to the alveoli.
Down
- 1. Tubes at the bottom of your windpipe that connect into each lung.
- 2. These illnesses can harm the respiratory system’s ability to deliver oxygen throughout the body and filter out waste gases.
- 3. Hollow organ that allows you to talk and make sounds when air moves in and out.
- 5. Tube that delivers air from your mouth and nose to the trachea
- 7. Tiny air sacs in the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place