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What passes through your nose and mouth and enter your or windpipe?

Air passes through your nose and mouth and into your windpipe, also known as the trachea, which carries the air to your lungs for breathing.


Air passes through your nose and mouth and enters your?

trachea


From the nose air passes through the which is the area behind the nose that leads to the throat?

From the nose, air passes through the nasopharynx, which is the area behind the nose that leads to the throat. The nasopharynx plays a role in warming, moisturizing, and filtering the air we breathe before it enters the lower respiratory system.


When you yawn air enters the body through the mouth or the nose from there it passes through the?

throat, bronchies, lungs


When the air passes through what?

When air passes through the respiratory system, it travels through the nose or mouth, down the trachea (windpipe), and into the lungs where gas exchange occurs. Oxygen from the air is absorbed into the bloodstream, and carbon dioxide is released from the bloodstream into the air to be exhaled.


When the air flows into the lungs is the air cooled?

No. It is warmed to near body temperature as it passes through the nose, throat, and bronchi.


What organ carries air from your nose and mouth to your lungs?

Air passes from the environment into the nose/mouth, through the nasopharynx and oropharynx, into the glottis, trachea, bronchi and its bifurcations, and into the alveoli of the lungs.


What is bronchiolus and what's its function?

A Bronchiolus is a respiratory bronchiole. They are the airways in which air passes through the nose or mouth. They help get air to the alveoli.


What does the air pass through after leaving the mouth or nose?

The air that enters the nose is the same that is found in our lower atmosphere: roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other. Once the air passes through the nostrils, some of the larger particles like dust and sand are filtered out before it gets to our lungs.


How does air enter the human body?

When you breathe you suck air from your mouth or nose!


Does the respiratory system warm air as it enters the body?

Yes it does. The nose is designed with conchae or turbinates that provide a pathway, meatus, that causes the air to touch the walls as it passes through. The nasal cavity is highly vascular, hence nose bleeds, that warm the air as it passes by.


What are a few reasons why plugging your nose while eating affects the way food tastes?

your sense of taste is greatly affected by you nose because the air you breath through your nose passes over your tongue so you "taste" the air