Circulatory/Respiratory

​The Respiratory System

​is a system in the body that deals with breathing. When we breathe we take in oxygen that we need and removes carbon dioxide that we don't need.

●warm, moisten and filter incoming air

●receive olfactory stimuli (smell)

●modify speech sounds

Cilia

●Tiny hairlike structures in the nasal
cavity

○Traps dirt and pathogens

The Nose

Trachea

●tubular passage which extends from
the larynx to the fifth thoracic
vertebrae where it divides into the
primary bronchi

●composed of 16 to 20 C-shaped
rings of cartilage

●Ends at the carina, an internal ridge
where it divides into the right and
left bronchi

Lungs

●Are the essential respiration
organs

●Are a pair of cone shaped
organs in the thoracic cavity

●Inflate and deflate as

●respiration occurs

●average pair of human lungs
can hold six liters of air

Right Lung is divided into 3 segments

Left Lung is divided into 2 segments

  Choking and CPR         

  Choking and CPR         

Practice on your stuffed animal as if it were an infant.
Take it seriously, it's a grade!

Open Ended

Why is important to unblock the airway? (1 solid sentence)

Open Ended

What's the physical difference of doing choking care for an infant and an adult/child? (1 solid sentence)

Open Ended

Why is it important to do compressions? (Think about what organ you are interacting with.)

Multiple Choice

The respiratory system is the body system in which _______ exchange takes place.

• blood
• gas
• nutrients
• waste

Multiple Select

Select the organs that are involved in the respiratory system

• Trachea

• Lungs

• Oxygen

• Nose

Multiple Select

Select the organs that are involved in the circulatory system

• Blood

• Heart

• Arteries

• Veins

Multiple Choice

What is the main function of the respiratory system?

• to provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the body

• o break down food and absorb nutrients

• to remove oxygen from the body and deliver carbon dioxide

Multiple Choice

What does blood transport?

• Nutrients
• Oxygen 
• Carbon Dioxide
• All of the above

Multiple Choice

The circulatory system works with the ___________ system to provide our body with oxygen.

• respiratory
• digestive
• muscular
• skeletal

Drag and Drop

Arteries carry oxygen rich blood ​

Placeholder

from the heart.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

away

toward

Drag and Drop

Veins carry oxygen poor blood ​

Placeholder

to the heart.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

toward

away

Multiple Choice

The job of the heart is to . . .

• pump blood around the body.

• send food to the small intestines.

• break down food.

• give energy to the body.