The respiratory and digestive system interact in many ways. One way they interact is by giving each other nutrients. This is because the respiratory system gives the digestive oxygen to go through cell respiration to work, and the digestive gives the respirsatory system glucose to go through cell respiration to keep working. They both have the key ingredients to cellular respiration, and together cells can go through cell respiration.
Another way they are connected is through the epiglottis. The epiglottis is part of the digestive system but helps the respiratory. It is a flaap of tissue that covers the trachea when you swallow food. This helps tthe respiratory system so that you are less likely to choke on a piece of food you are trying to eat. This connects the respiratory and dgestive systems because with out it, iit could be fatal.
A third way that the respiratory system and digestive system interact is that the respiratory and digestive systam get rid of waste. The respiratory gets rid of the carbon dioxide the digesive system creates. It takes it out of the body to be exhaled, so that the digestive cell can work. The carbon dioxide molecule was in the cell because of cellular respiration, the combination of the two "ingredients" from digestion and breathing. The digestive system though, does not get rid of waste from the respiratory system, though it is a similarity between their functions. Digestion and respiration (breathing) need each other and the other systems need them for the body to function.
Respiratory and Digestive Poem
Oxygen and gluceose
get very close
during cellular respiration
giving cells salvation
With out the small intestine
or respiration (meaning respiratory system)
our cells would be no more
and the world would be a bore
The epiglottis above the "wind-pipe"
makes sure everything that enters is the right type
protecting the lung
from a food to plunge (food going down trachea choking you by accident)
The "McFlow" Chart
The oxygen cell goes into the lungs.
The oxygen goes from the lungs to the capillaries to the heart.
The food gets broken down further in the small intestine. It is broken down into glucose. (chemical equation below)
The blood goes from the heart to arteries to be carried throughout the body.
The glucose goes from the small intestine through capillaries to an artery (with blood).
The oxygen and glucose go from the blood into a body cell.
The body cell uses the glucose and oxygen to go through cellular respiration in the mitochondria.
The respiratory and digestive system interact in many ways. One way they interact is by giving each other nutrients. This is because the respiratory system gives the digestive oxygen to go through cell respiration to work, and the digestive gives the respirsatory system glucose to go through cell respiration to keep working. They both have the key ingredients to cellular respiration, and together cells can go through cell respiration.
Another way they are connected is through the epiglottis. The epiglottis is part of the digestive system but helps the respiratory. It is a flaap of tissue that covers the trachea when you swallow food. This helps tthe respiratory system so that you are less likely to choke on a piece of food you are trying to eat. This connects the respiratory and dgestive systems because with out it, iit could be fatal.
A third way that the respiratory system and digestive system interact is that the respiratory and digestive systam get rid of waste. The respiratory gets rid of the carbon dioxide the digesive system creates. It takes it out of the body to be exhaled, so that the digestive cell can work. The carbon dioxide molecule was in the cell because of cellular respiration, the combination of the two "ingredients" from digestion and breathing. The digestive system though, does not get rid of waste from the respiratory system, though it is a similarity between their functions. Digestion and respiration (breathing) need each other and the other systems need them for the body to function.
Respiratory and Digestive Poem
Oxygen and gluceoseget very close
during cellular respiration
giving cells salvation
With out the small intestine
or respiration (meaning respiratory system)
our cells would be no more
and the world would be a bore
The epiglottis above the "wind-pipe"
makes sure everything that enters is the right type
protecting the lung
from a food to plunge (food going down trachea choking you by accident)
The "McFlow" Chart
Digestive-Respiratory
By: Amy McClurg