Respiratory System

Question 0

Pharynx

Answer 0

Function : to connect nasal cavity to mouth

Structure: big space where air can meet

Question 1

Nasal cavities

Answer 1

Function: where air goes in
Structure: moved air,cleans air and warms

Question 2

Esophagus

Answer 2

Function: tube that food goes to get to the stomach
Structure: a tube that allows food to get to the stomach

Question 3

Trachea

Answer 3

Function: air goes through tube to get to lungs
Structure: A tube that allows air to travel to lungs has. Is hard on all sides except on so the esophagus can expand into it

Question 4

Epiglottis

Answer 4

Function: to not let food to go into lungs and so air can’t go into a stomach
Structure: a flap that either covers the esophagus or the trachea

Question 5

Larynx

Answer 5

Function: allows people to talk
Structure: air passed through vocal cords and cords vibrate and create sound.

Question 6

Lungs

Answer 6

Function site of gas exchange fills up with air

Structure is elasticity and allows to expand

Question 7

Bronchioles

Answer 7

Function passage ways for air

Structure to transport and keep are clean also so it doesn’t collapse also gas exchange can only happen in small vessels

Question 8

Bronchus

Answer 8

Function to transport air from the trachea to the lungs

Structure filters and doesn’t collapse

Question 9

Aveoli

Answer 9

Function site of gas exchange

Structure encrusted surface area and more efficient gas exchange and must be thin

Question 10

Diaphragm

Answer 10

Function makes lungs exhale and inhale helps with venous return
Structure must be strong big also on inhalation creates pressure in abdomen and helps with venous return

Question 11

Goblet cell

Answer 11

Creates mucus

Question 12

Mucus

Answer 12

Anti bacterial traps things moistens air transported by cilia

Question 13

Cilia

Answer 13

Little hairs that trap things and move around other things