Water and Metabolic Wastes
What are the three organs involved in excretion?
What is Lungs, Kidneys, and Skin.
What is the hollow muscular sac that stores urine?
What is Urinary Bladder.
What are the two treatment options if Kidneys fail?
What is Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Transplants.
How is carbon dioxide in your body excreted?
What is Lungs.
What is the process that rids the body of toxic chemicals, excess water, salts, and carbon dioxide while maintaining osmotic and PH balance.
What is Excretion.
2 reasons why the Kidneys are important organs?
T Filter blood by removing waste and control water levels
What is the role of the Ureters.
What is direct the urine into the urinary bladder.
What are the most common causes of Kidney failure? Name two.
T What is infection, diabetes, high blood pressures, and by the immune system, alcohol abuse
Ammonia is converted in the liver to a much less toxic nitrogen waste called?
DJ What is Urea.
Where does Ultrafiltration take place?
dj Glomerulus/Bowman's capsule
What is process called when blood is filtered artificially in hospital
Kidney dialysis
Another name for first coiled tubule
DJ Proximal Convuluted Tubule
How does the skin excrete waste?
What is Sweat.
Where are the Kidneys located?
What is lower back.
What is the elimination of urine from the body through the urethra is called?
What is Urination.
What is the problem with kidney transplants?
What is rejection of the transplanted organ by the recipient's immune system.
What are the two main processes that occur as the blood flows through a nephron and filters blood?
What is ultrafiltration, reabsorption.
How do the kidneys excrete waste?
What is Urine
What are the tubes that carry the urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
What is Ureters.
What are the organs of the urinary excretion? (name three)
What is Kidney, Ureter, Urinary Bladder, and Urethra
How can hazardous chemicals enter the body? (Name one)
What is lungs, digestive system, or skin.
Layer between capillary wall of glomerulus and wall of Bowman's capsule that acts as a filter
Basement membrane