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Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI3bSdn2nIU-J_TS2KQeJBg?sub_confirmation=1 MAGIC BOX ANIMATION PROUDLY PRESENTS EARLY LEARNING SERIES(PRE-SCHOOL) "LUNGS" KNOW YOUR BODY FOR CHILDREN The greatest machine you will ever own is your body. It is more complicated than any computer. Your body is made up of hundreds of different parts.

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There are some things your body must do in order to live - your heart must pump blood, your brain must keep everything balanced and functioning in your body, and your lungs must allow you to breathe air!

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If I ask you, what is the most important thing to live as a human then most probably your answer would be ' breathing'. Have you ever wondered which human organ is responsible for the core job of processing oxygen for breathing? The answer is lungs. In human body, there are two lungs, right lung and left lung. Both the lungs together weight 2.9 pounds. Your left lung is slightly lighter than the right one.
Quick Facts: -

Left lung is smaller in comparison to the right lung as it has two lobes and the right lung has three lobes.

Your lungs expand when you breathe in. Their expansion is possible only because the diaphragm squeezes.

There are approximately 300 to 500 million tiny and spongy air sacks that are no thicker than a cell. These air sacks are known as alveoli.

These alveoli are surrounded by the smallest blood vessels in the human body called capillaries.

In an adult human, the total internal surface area of lungs is 50-70 square metres.

Your lungs are located in your chest behind your rib cage.

There are various diseases that affect your lungs like: - pneumonia, emphysema, bronchitis and tuberculosis.

Asthma is the most common disease of lungs. An attack happens when your airways narrow.

At the time of birth, we all had pink lungs but as we grow and breathe in the polluted air, our lungs get darker in colour.

Your lungs are the only human body organ that can float on water.

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If I ask you, what is the most important thing to live as a human then most probably your answer would be ' breathing'. Have you ever wondered which human organ is responsible for the core job of processing oxygen for breathing? The answer is lungs.

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Fun Facts on Lungs for Kids
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Did you know that the lungs continuously hold at least one litre of air? Did you know that every year our lungs process more than 4 million litres of air? Did you know that the study of lung diseases is called Pulmonology? Read our facts sheet to learn more amazing, cool facts about the human lung

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Fun Fact 1
What are lungs? Lungs are part of the respiratory system; the respiratory system is made up of the trachea, the lungs and the diaphragm. The purpose of the respiratory system is to breathe to circulate oxygen into the body

Fun Fact 2
The word "Lung" originates from 13th century European language, it means "light" which refers to the weight of the organ when considering its size

Fun Fact 3
Where are the Lungs in the human body? Humans have two lungs, they are situated below the trachea (the windpipe) and above the diaphragm; they are protected by muscles and the rib cage

Fun Fact 4
Lungs are filled with over 300 million tiny air bags called alveoli. The alveoli carry oxygen into the blood stream and remove carbon dioxide which is exhaled in our breathe

Fun Fact 5
How big are Lungs? Lungs vary in size just as people do, generally adult lungs measure around 25 - 35 cm long, 10 - 15 cm wide and weigh 0.8 - 1.2 kg. The left lung is slightly smaller than the right to allow room for the heart

Fun Fact 6
What do lungs look like? A healthy lung is pink, smooth and shiny, people who smoke damage their lungs; a damaged lung is black, bumpy and dull

Fun Fact 7
Adult lungs contain approximately 2,400 kilometres of airways and have a total surface area of about 70 - 100 square metres; this is approximately the same size area half of a tennis court - all packed into a chest!

Fun Fact 8
When you inhale, your lungs inflate and your can see your rib cage expand upwards and outwards

Fun Fact 9
Our lungs work without us even thinking about it; they enable us to breathe approximately 23,000 times a day!

Fun Fact 10
Strange Fact: the lung is the only organ that is capable of floating on water!

Fun Fact 11
Diseases of the lungs include; asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia and tuberculosis

Fun Fact 12
Smoking is bad for you, particularly your lungs. Tar from cigarettes can cause lung diseases and lung cancer. Smoking is responsible for over 80% of lung cancer deaths

Fun Fact 13
What is Asthma? Asthma is a common disease that affects the tubes that carry air into the lungs. Experts suggest that 1 in 12 Americans suffer from asthma

Fun Fact 14
Asthma is irritated by dust; airways tighten and make it difficult to breathe. Asthma is usually treated with an inhaler pump; this treats the sensitive tubes directly

Fun Fact 15
Most people do not breathe correctly! Without even realising it we often breathe too shallow, hold our breath, breathe through our mouths, or breathe through just one nostril. Focusing on breathing correctly will increase oxygen supplies to help us to relax and improve concentration...Give it a try!

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How many times a day do you pay attention to your breathing? Probably not even once because it is something so habitual, so spontaneous and so universal that it goes unnoticed. But without breathing, no human on earth can survive. While our nose is a medium to exchange atmospheric air and filter out the unwanted substance, the core job of respiration is performed by the lungs. So, today we are going to learn 20 interesting human lungs facts and find out their amazing powers!

Did you know that human lungs are the only organs that can float?

Interesting Human Lungs Facts: 1-5

1. Human lungs are the organs responsible for respiration. Respiration is different than breathing. Breathing involves the act of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. This is usually accomplished by the nose. Breathing on the other hand is a process of breaking down oxygen so that it can be used by body cells for creating energy. Thus, breathing is a part of respiration because without breathing, oxygen cannot enter our body. Thus, the job of our lungs is to process oxygen.

2. There are two lungs in human body - the right lung and the left lung. These two lungs together weigh 2.9 pounds of 1.3 kilograms. The left lung is lighter than the right lung.

3. The left lung has two lobes and is slightly smaller than the right lung. The right lung on the other hand has three lobes.

4. The structure of left lung differs slightly from the structure of right lung (apart from the difference in the number of lobes). The left lung contains a 'cardiac notch'. The cardiac notch is a small place designed to accommodate the heart.

5. The total length of the airways running through the two lungs is 1,500 miles or 2,400 kilometers.

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6. The two lungs together contain 300 to 500 million alveoli. What are alveoli? They are tiny and spongy air sacks no thicker than a typical cell (remember that you cannot really see an individual human cell without the help of a powerful microscope) which usually measures 10 micro meters or 10 µm which is actually 10⁻⁵ m. These alveoli are present at the end of the smallest of airways and are the true sites of carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange.

7. Scientists estimate that the total internal surface area of lungs in adult humans vary between 30-50 sq. meters and 70-10 sq. meters. Converting the numbers into more intelligible format, the total internal surface are is estimated to be equal to the total area of one side of a tennis court.

8. The alveoli in lungs are surrounded by capillaries. Capillaries are actually blood vessels which are the smallest of blood vessels in human body. Scientists say that if all capillaries surrounding the alveoli are unwound and placed end to end, they will cover a staggering 616 miles or 992 kilometers.

9. Human lungs, just like the heart, are protected by the rib cage in chest. The lungs are connected to the spinal cord and the chest bone (or sternum).

10. When humans breathe in or inhale, the lungs expand. This expansion is possible only when diaphragm squeezes. The diaphragm is actually a small dome-shaped muscles seated right below the lungs. If the diaphragm malfunctions, one will experience breathing difficulties.

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How many times a day do you pay attention to your breathing? Probably not even once because it is something so habitual, so spontaneous and so universal that it goes unnoticed. But without breathing, no human on earth can survive.

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Your lungs work with your respiratory system to allow you to take in fresh air, get rid of stale air, and even talk. Let's take a tour of the lungs!

Locate Those Lungs

Your lungs are in your chest, and are so big that they take up most of the space in there. You have two lungs, but they aren't the same size the way your eyes or nostrils are. Instead, the lung on the left side of your body is a bit smaller than the lung on the right. This extra space on the left leaves room for your heart.

Your lungs are protected by your rib cage, which is made up of 12 sets of ribs. These ribs are connected to your spine in your back and go around your lungs to keep them safe. Beneath the lungs is the diaphragm (say: DY-uh-fram), a dome-shaped muscle that works with your lungs to allow you to inhale (breathe in) and exhale (breathe out) air.

You can't see your lungs, but it's easy to feel them in action: Put your hands on your chest and breathe in very deeply. You will feel your chest getting slightly bigger. Now breathe out the air, and feel your chest return to its regular size. You've just felt the power of your lungs!

A Look Inside the Lungs

From the outside, lungs are pink and a bit squishy, like a sponge. But the inside contains the real lowdown on the lungs! At the bottom of the trachea (say: TRAY-kee-uh), or windpipe, there are two large tubes. These tubes are called the main stem bronchi (say: BRONG-kye), and one heads left into the left lung, while the other heads right into the right lung.

Each main stem bronchus (say: BRONG-kuss) - the name for just one of the bronchi - then branches off into tubes, or bronchi, that get smaller and even smaller still, like branches on a big tree. The tiniest tubes are called bronchioles (say: BRONG-kee-oles), and there are about 30,000 of them in each lung. Each bronchiole is about the same thickness as a hair.

At the end of each bronchiole is a special area that leads into clumps of teeny tiny air sacs called alveoli (say: al-VEE-oh-lie). There are about 600 million alveoli in your lungs and if you stretched them out, they would cover an entire tennis court. Now that's a load of alveoli! Each alveolus (say: al-VEE-oh-luss) - what we call just one of the alveoli - has a mesh-like covering of very small blood vessels called capillaries (say: KAP-ill-er-ees). These capillaries are so tiny that the cells in your blood need to line up single file just to march through them.

Every time you inhale air, dozens of body parts work together to help get that air in there without you ever thinking about it.

As you breathe in, your diaphragm contracts and flattens out. This allows it to move down, so your lungs have more room to grow larger as they fill up with air. And the diaphragm isn't the only part that gives your lungs the room they need. Your rib muscles also lift the ribs up and outward to give the lungs more space.

At the same time, you inhale air through your mouth and nose, and the air heads down your trachea, or windpipe. On the way down the windpipe, tiny hairs called cilia (say: SILL-ee-uh) move gently to keep mucus and dirt out of the lungs. The air then goes through the series of branches in your lungs, through the bronchi and the bronchioles.

Thank You, Alveoli!

The air finally ends up in the 600 million alveoli. As these millions of alveoli fill up with air, the lungs get bigger.

It's the alveoli that allow oxygen from the air to pass into your blood. All the cells in the body need oxygen every minute of the day. Oxygen passes through the walls of each alveolus into the tiny capillaries that surround it. The oxygen enters the blood in the tiny capillaries, hitching a ride on red blood cells and traveling through layers of blood vessels to the heart. The heart then sends the oxygenated (filled with oxygen) blood out to all the cells in the body.

Waiting to Exhale

When it's time to exhale (breathe out), everything happens in reverse: Now it's the diaphragm's turn to say, "Move it!" Your diaphragm relaxes and moves up, pushing air out of the lungs. Your rib muscles become relaxed, and your ribs move in again, creating a smaller space in your chest.

By now your cells have used the oxygen they need, and your blood is carrying carbon dioxide and other wastes that must leave your body. The blood comes back through the capillaries and the wastes enter the alveoli. Then you breathe them out in the reverse order of how they came in - the air goes through the bronchioles, out the bronchi, out the trachea, and finally out through your mouth and nose.

The air that you breathe out not only contains wastes and carbon dioxide, but it's warm too! As air travels through your body, it picks up heat along the way. You can feel this heat by putting your hand in front of your mouth or nose as you breathe out. What is the temperature of the air that comes out of your mouth or nose?

With all this movement, you might be wondering why things don't get stuck as the lungs fill and empty! Luckily, your lungs are covered by two really slick special layers called pleural (say: PLOO-ral) membranes. These membranes are separated by a fluid that allows them to slide around easily while you inhale and exhale.

Time for Talk

Your lungs are important for breathing . . . and also for talking! Above the trachea (windpipe) is the larynx (say: LAIR-inks), which is sometimes called the voice box. Across the voice box are two tiny ridges called vocal cords, which open and close to make sounds. When you exhale air from the lungs, it comes through the trachea and larynx and reaches the vocal cords. If the vocal cords are closed and the air flows between them, the vocal cords vibrate and a sound is made.

The amount of air you blow out from your lungs determines how loud a sound will be and how long you can make the sound. Try inhaling very deeply and saying the names of all the kids in your class - how far can you get without taking the next breath? The next time you're outside, try shouting and see what happens - shouting requires lots of air, so you'll need to breathe in more frequently than you would if you were only saying the words.

Experiment with different sounds and the air it takes to make them - when you giggle, you let out your breath in short bits, but when you burp, you let swallowed air in your stomach out in one long one! When you hiccup, it's because the diaphragm moves in a funny way that causes you to breathe in air suddenly, and that air hits your vocal cords when you're not ready.

Love Your Lungs

Your lungs are amazing. They allow you to breathe, talk to your friend, shout at a game, sing, laugh, cry, and more!

Keeping your lungs looking and feeling healthy is a smart idea, and the best way to keep your lungs pink and healthy is not to smoke. Smoking isn't good for any part of your body, and your lungs especially hate it.

You can also show your love for your lungs by exercising! Exercise is good for every part of your body, and especially for your lungs and heart.

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Kids' Health - Topics - Lungs - your lungs

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Check out our range of interesting human body facts for kids and learn some fun trivia about how the human body works.

Lung Facts

Check out these fun lung facts for kids. Learn more about the amazing organs that allow us to breathe in the oxygen we need to live as well as breathe out the waste product carbon dioxide.

The primary functions of your lungs are to transport oxygen from the air you breathe into your bloodstream while taking away carbon dioxide, which is released into the air when you breathe out.

Most vertebrate animals (animals with spines) have two lungs.

Your left and right lungs aren't exactly the same. The lung on the left side of your body is divided into two lobes while the lung on your right side is divided into three. The left lung is also slightly smaller, allowing room for your heart.

Can you live without one lung? Yes you can, it limits your physical ability but doesn't stop you from living a relatively normal life. Many people around the world live with just one lung.

People who have a large lung capacity can send oxygen around their body faster. You can increase you lung capacity with regular exercise.

When resting, the average adult breathes around 12 to 20 times a minute.

An average person breathes in around 11,000 litres of air every day.

The study of lung diseases is known as pulmonology.

As well as other parts of your body and your general health, smoking is bad for your lungs. Smoking can cause lung cancer among other lung affecting diseases.

Asthma is a common disease that affects the lungs. Asthma attacks happen when your airways narrow after being irritated. The narrow airways make it hard for you to breathe in air.

Pneumonia is a dangerous disease that makes it harder for your lungs to absorb oxygen from the air you breathe.

Other lung diseases include emphysema, tuberculosis and bronchitis.

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Fun Lung Facts for Kids - Interesting Facts about Lungs

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Check out our range of interesting human body facts for kids and learn some fun trivia about how the human body works. Lung Facts Check out these fun lung facts for kids. Learn more about the amazing organs that allow us to breathe in the oxygen we need to live as well as breathe out the waste product carbon dioxide.