Trachea

What is the respiratory system?

Therespiratory
trachea (TRAY-kee-uh}
isofsometimes
called the windpipe.
Your
system is made up
the
organs
in
your
body
that
help
you
to
breathe.
The trachea filters the air we breathe and branches into the bronchi.
Remember, that Respiration = Breathing. The
goal of breathing is to deliver oxygen to the
body and to take away carbon dioxide.

Bronchi
The
(BRAHN-ky)
are two air tubes that branch off of the
Parts
of bronchi
the respiratory
system
trachea and carry air directly into the lungs.
Diaphragm
Lungs
The
lungs arestarts
the main
organs
of the
Breathing
with
a dome-shaped
muscle at the bottom of the
respiratory system. In the lungs oxygen is
lungs called the diaphragm (DY-uh-fram). When you breathe in, the
taken into the body and carbon dioxide is
diaphragm
it contracts it flattens out and pulls
breathed out. contracts.
The red bloodWhen
cells are
downward.
movement
enlarges
responsible
forThis
picking
up the oxygen
in the the space that the lungs are in.
lungs
and carrying
thepulls
oxygen
all the
This larger
space
airtointo
thebody
lungs. When you breathe out, the
cells
that
need
it.
The
red
blood
cells
drop
off
diaphragm expands reducing the amount
of space for the lungs and
the oxygen to the body cells, then pick up the
forcing
air out.
The
diaphragm
is the main muscle used in breathing.
carbon dioxide
which
is a
waste gas product
produced by our cells. The red blood cells
transport the carbon dioxide back to the lungs
and we breathe it out when we exhale.