The major function in the respiratory system is to supply the blood and other body systems with oxygen

When you inhale the lungs blow up like a balloon. Then the bronchi and the alveoli witch are ways from the lungs to the blood witch carries the oxygen from the lungs to the blood and the other body systems

Another function in the respiratory system is to clear out the what the body does not need like carbon dioxide.

Emphysema is caused by smoking. Lung cancer is a disease caused

by uncontrollable cell growth in tissues.

Inflammatory lung disease is caused by a large neutrophil

Don’t smoke! Eat Healthy!

Your lungs have about 1,500 miles of airways

Bronchioles are about the same thickness as hair,

There are 600 million alveoli in your lungs, and if you stretched them out they could cover an entire tennis court.

Yawning brings extra oxygen in your lungs Yawning also gets rid of carbon dioxide that

may be getting up in the lungs Children and women breath faster than men

Why does the lungs stop when you sneeze? Answer because your airways get cut off for a moment.

Why does your heart beat when you hold your breathe? Answer Because there is still a supply of oxygen eventually your heart will slow down and then stop.

What does the air you inhale go through?

Answer through the nasal passages and trachea

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