When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body's cells to keep them working, while also clearing your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates. How do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking about it? This video takes us into the lungs to investigate how they help keep us alive. [3:21]

Concepts

breathing, lungs

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Additional Tags

autonomic nervous system, respiratory organs, respiratory system, transporting oxygen, how do the lungs work?

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This video is hosted on YouTube