Respiratory Reviewer

Main gateway of the respiratory system, air enters nostrils is filtered by hair cilia warmed moist and sampled for other as it flows through a maze of nasal passages.

• Pharynx

• Nose

• Bronchi

• Trachea

Air sacks at the end of bronchioles where gas exchange takes place

• Nose

• Epiglottis

• Diaphragm

• Alveoli

To ensure that incoming air is supplied to each alveous.

• Diaphragm

• Bronchi

• Bronchioles

• Larynx

Each bronchus late into a lange and branches into smaller and smaller bronchioles resembling an inverted free distribute the heirs throughout the lungs until it reaches the respiratory bronchioles and alveolar sacs

• Bronchi

• Bronchioles

• Trachea

• Nose

Sometimes called throat passageway of both food and air

• Pharynx

• Epiglottis

• Alveoli

• Bronchi

A flap of cartilage guards the path of the pharynx to ensure food and air will enter their respective correct passageways

• Trachea

• Pharynx

• Epiglottis

• Bronchi

A muscle that helps push air to go in and out of the body

• Alveoli

• Diaphragm

• Bronchi

• Bronchioles

Contains vocal cords which allow us to make sound by voluntarily tensing muscles

• Trachea

• Bronchi

• Nose

• Larynx

Rings of cartilage maintain the shape of the trachea

• Trachea

• Nose

• Alveoli

• Diaphragm