A storage for urine until it can't hold anymore
What is a bladder?
Surrounds the cells and directly exchanges with them the substances that they need and produce
What is interstitial fluid?
The liquid part of the blood.
What is plasma?
A narrow tube that carries urine out of the body
What is urethra?
A clear liquid which forms from the interstitial fluid
What is lymph?
The tiny blood vessels that connect the veins and arteries to body cells.
What are capillaries?
How does blood leave the ventricle in the right half of the heart?
Blood leaves the ventricle through the pulmonary artery.
What do the kidneys filter out, and what is that filter system called?
Filters out blood, and the filtering system in the kidney are the nephrons
True or false: the lymphatic system has a driving force.
False, when we move, the skeletal muscles surrounding the lymph vessels contract and lymph is moved around.
How does blood leave the ventricle in the left half of the heart?
Blood leaves the ventricle through the aorta and from there is distributed throughout the whole body.
True or false: the ureters produce urine.
False, yor kidneys do.
Similar to veins. They collect lymph from the capillaries and flow into the blood circulatory system.
What are lymph vessels?
These chambers bring blood into the heart from elsewhere in the body.
What are the atria (singular: Atrium)?
Which valves prevent reverse blood flow?
Semilunar valves.
List the functions of all the organs in the excretory system
Kidneys-filter blood and makes urine Ureters-narrow tube that transports urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder Urinary Bladder-stores urine until it is eliminated from the body
Air travels from the pharynx to the ________ to the _____ and finally to the ______ where oxygen is exchanged with the blood stream.
trachea, bronchi, alveoli
Their function is to filter lymph and produce white blood cells.
What are lymph nodes?
Arteries branch off to form these before branching into capillaries.
What are arterioles?
In this stage of a heartbeat the atria and the ventricles are relaxed and the semilunar valves are closed.
What is diastole?