SHPS Respiratory System

Functions of the organs in the Respiratory System

Contains Allows Function

Nose Contains hair and Allow air to enter and Warms and moistens
mucus that trap the leave the body the air that passes
dirt in the air and filter through
the air for our body

Windpipe Transfer the air from

the nose to the lungs

Lungs Contains air sacs Allow exchanges of Help the body to take
gases in the air sacs in oxygen and
remove carbon
dioxide

Elaborate: When the air we breathe in reaches the lungs, oxygen passes into the blood. The
blood transports the oxygen to all parts of the body. When the blood transport blood rich in
carbon dioxide to the lungs, the carbon dioxide is removed from the body when we breathe
out

Air Sacs Surrounded by a rich This increase the Oxygen passes

network of blood surface area for through the thin walls
vessels called exchange of gases. of the air sacs into
capillaries the blood vessels.
Carbon dioxide is
released from the
blood vessels
through the thin walls
into the air sac.