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• This wiki and power point is all about the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM!!!!!

• I hope you enjoy the following presentation

The Respiratory System

By: Morgan Ann Cleavelin

Main Function

• The main function of the respiratory system is to help you breath ,talk, and help you get rid of bad mucus when you breath.

Facts about the respiratory system

• You have 600 million alveoli in you lungs. • You have 30,000 bronchioles in you lungs. • larynx is scientific for your voice box.• when you burp it is really swallowed air in your stomach then

you let it out and burrrrrrppppp!!!!! • when you hiccup it is only because your diaphragm moves in a funny

way that makes you breath in air suddenly. then the air hits the vocal chord when your not ready. It's not because your growing.

• when you smoke it damages you cilia and you can no longer move to keep out and it makes it harder to breath.

• every minute you breath in 13 pints of air.• your right lung is slightly larger than your left• when you are sleeping you only breathe about 12 to 13 times a minute.

• breathing is involuntary .that means you don‘t have to tell your self to breath .you don't even think about it but you do.

Words you need to know!!!!• The Nasal cavity: this the nose. • The mouth: this is another way of breathing.• The pharynx: mostly called the throat.

• The larynx: the voice box that gives you voice.

• The bronchial: these are the two tubes that lead into the lungs.

• The bronchi: the stems leading to the alveoli inside

the lungs. • The lungs: the lungs let you take inhale and exhale

air. • The diaphragm: muscle under the lungs that pulls

and pushes the lungs take in air and lets it out.• The alveoli: tiny sack that change the oxygen into

blood.

Vocabulary

• Cilia: tiny hairs that keep dirt and mucus out of your body.• Diaphragm: the muscle under your lungs that pulls and

pushes your lungs to help you inhale and exhale• Larynx: commonly called your voice box helps you…talk.• Trachea: this is usually called your windpipe helps the air

get to your lungs.

• bronchi: two tubes that leads to your lungs.

Other facts about the Respiratory

SystemThe Diaphragm, larynx, and trachea are all apart of the respiratory system

The muscular system helps the respiratory system because it helps pull and push the air in and out

Three words that relate to the respiratory system are breathing/hiccup/and burp!!!

Here are some pictures of the lungs

Here are quizzes ,games, and videos !!

• Videos

• http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/_bfs_RSmoviesource.html • quizzes• http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.aspobjID=NUR2203

• http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/science/respiratory_system/quiz752.html

games• http://www.airplay.ie/games.html#

The End

• CREDITS:

• Kid health.com

• Links on previous page

• And me!!!