Across
- 1. Transfers content such as foods, saliva, and air from the mouth
- 4. Secretions aid in respiration
- 7. Aid swallowing and breathing by altering respiration and digestion; plays role in speaking
- 13. Contributes to the overall structural support and strength of the body
- 15. First part of digestive system; allows us to breathe, taste, and speak
- 17. Produces mucus that helps to warm, humidify, filter, and clean the air that enters the nose
- 18. House and protect the olfactory nerve fibers
- 19. Provides barrier against foreign particles, captures them in its sticky mucus, and clears them out
Down
- 2. Provides support and flexibility to different parts of the body
- 3. Forms the roof of the oral cavity and the floor of the nasal cavity
- 5. When you breath in air, it funnels it down to your trachea and to your lungs
- 6. Provides airways for respiration
- 7. Moisturizes and cleans the airways
- 8. Musucular tube that food goes down from the mouth to the stomach
- 9. Connect your nasal passages to the rest of your respiratory system
- 10. Serves as a passageway for both food and air
- 11. Closes laryngeal inlet before swallowing to prevent food/liquid going into airways
- 12. Participates in exhange of signals and cells
- 14. Folds of throat tissues that are key in creating sounds through speaking
- 16. Controls food for chewing and swallowing; creates sense of taste and speech