What’s on the Respiratory System poster
A definition and 5 facts worth remembering.
Takes oxygen out of the air and gets rid of the carbon dioxide your cells produce.
- You breathe about 20,000 times a day.
- The diaphragm pulls down to draw air in.
- Alveoli are tiny air sacs where the gas swap happens.
- There are around 300 million alveoli in a pair of lungs.
- Breathing out removes carbon dioxide, which is a waste product.
- Main parts — nose, trachea
- nose · trachea · bronchi · lungs · diaphragm
Works with the circulatory system — the blood is the delivery service.
Questions about the Respiratory System poster
- What’s on the Respiratory System poster?
- A definition and 5 facts worth remembering. Takes oxygen out of the air and gets rid of the carbon dioxide your cells produce. You breathe about 20,000 times a day.; The diaphragm pulls down to draw air in.; Alveoli are tiny air sacs where the gas swap happens.; There are around 300 million alveoli in a pair of lungs.; Breathing out removes carbon dioxide, which is a waste product.; Main parts — nose, trachea; nose · trachea · bronchi · lungs · diaphragm. Works with the circulatory system — the blood is the delivery service.
- Who is the Respiratory System poster for?
- Respiratory System is filed under 5th Grade (ages 10–11), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting science, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Respiratory System poster?
- Point to where this system is on your own body as you read each fact. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Respiratory System belongs on the wall where that science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Respiratory System?
- Circulatory System, Digestive System and Excretory System sit alongside Respiratory System in the 5th Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Circulatory SystemDigestive SystemExcretory System
- Is the Respiratory System poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Respiratory System downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 5th Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Respiratory System poster print at?
- Respiratory System is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Respiratory System loses nothing.Printing guide
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