Digestion Vocab
Digestion Functions
Urinary Vocab
Urinary Functions
Wild Card!
100
Organs that break down food so that it can be used by the body.
What is the digestive system?
100
Small finger-like projections along the inside walls of the small intestine, that help absorb nutrients.
What are villi?
100
The group of organs that produce, store and eliminate urine.
What is the urinary system?
100
The yellow fluid that remains after the nephrons have cleaned the blood, aka the technical term for pee.
What is urine?
100
A juice containing digestive enzymes, fats and bicarbonates that neutralize acid in chyme is made in this organ.
What is the pancreas?
200
A sac-shaped organ that stores bile produced by the liver.
What is the gallbladder?
200
This large organ breaks down toxins, stores nutrients, and makes bile.
What is the liver?
200
One of a pair of organs that filter wastes and water from the blood and excrete urine.
What is a kidney?
200
The area in which urine is stored before it is eliminated.
What is the urinary bladder?
200
Urine is carried from the kidneys to the bladder through this tube.
What is a ureter?
300
A long, straight tube that connects the pharynx to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
300
This is found in many fruits and vegetables, and helps to move material through the large intestine.
What is fiber?
300
The microscopic unit of the kidney that filters blood.
What is the nephron?
300
This is something that is found in caffeinated beverages, and makes the body expel liquid.
What is a diuretic?
300
These can be formed in the kidneys when there is a build up of waste and salt, and can block urine flow.
What are kidney stones?
400
The organ where most of the breakdown of food happens and most of the nutrients from food are absorbed.
What is the small intestine?
400
The two types of digestion that take place in the stomach.
What are mechanical and chemical digestion?
400
The tube that carries urine out of the body.
What is the urethra?
400
This can enter the bladder through the urethra and cause infections.
What is bacteria?
400
This is where nutrients go after they have been broken down.
What is the bloodstream?
500
The organ that lies behind the stomach and that makes digestive enzymes and hormones that regulate sugar levels.
What is the pancreas?
500
These break down protein chains so that amino acids can pass into the bloodstream.
What are enzymes?
500
Name the 4 parts of the urinary system, in the order that urine passes through them
What is KIDNEYS--URETERS--BLADDER--URETHRA
500
This is what "excretion" means.
What is to eliminate waste?
500
This hormone tells the kidneys to make less urine.
What is antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
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