Digestive System
What organ of the digestive system breaks down food mechanically?
What is teeth.
What is the main function of the urinary system.
What is to filter waste and extra fluid, known as urine, from the blood.
Food travels to this organ after the esophagus.
What is the stomach
What class are we in?
What is Anatomy and physiology
The process of breaking down food into molecules that the body can use is called
What is digestion.
The purpose of saliva in digestion.
What is to start chemical digestion of carbohydrates.
What does the kidney do?
What is remove waste products and filter the blood.
What is absorbed by the large intestine?
What is water?
What type of wastes are the "excretory" wastes.
What is kidney filtering blood and urine, large intestines excreting waste, skin excreting excess water/salt, lungs exhaling carbon dioxide.
Give an example of chemical digestion
What is acids in the stomach or saliva in the mouth?
The muscular tube that moves food from the throat to the stomach
What is the esophagus
How many Liters of blood does a Males kidneys filter a day?
What is 180 liters
The largest organ in your body.
What is the skin.
What is urea?
What is the toxin found in the bloodstream after digestion.
What does the Esophagus do.
What is moves food by the process of peristalsis.
The term for the muscular movement in the esophagus enables food to the stomach.
What is peristalsis?
Stones that crystalize in your ureters and cause pain.
What are kidney stones?
The structure within the kidney responsible for filtration.
What is the nephron?
The medical process used by people whose kidneys don't function correctly.
Dialysis
Tiny fingerlike projections that line the inside of the Small Intestines and absorb nutrients.
What are villi
The reason the large intestine called the "large" intestine and the small intestine called the "small" intestine?
What is the diameter of the large intestine is greater than the small intestine, even though the smaller intestine is longer in length.
What muscles have to relax in order for urine to travel through the urethra?
What are sphincter muscles.
The flap of tissue that covers your trachea when you swallow.
What is epiglottis.
The thick liquid paste of food.
What chyme
What is the function of the urethra?
what is move urine outside the body