Excretory System
Waste Filtration
Smoking and your Health
Respiratory System
Gas Exchange
100
The largest and major organs of this system
What are the kidneys?
100
Tiny filtering factories (structures) that remove wastes from the blood and produce urine.
What are the nephrons?
100
Carbon monoxide, tar, and nicotine
What are three chemicals found in tobacco smoke?
100
The act of breathing
What is respiration?
100
Carbon dioxide and water
What are the products of cellular respiration?
200
The chemical produced from the breakdown of proteins
What is urea?
200
To clean the blood.
What is the main function of the excretory system?
200
A stimulant drug found in tobacco
What is nicotine?
200
Air moving across these structures causes them to vibrate and produce sound.
What are the vocal cords?
200
carbon dioxide and oxygen
What are the gases exchanged by the respiratory system?
300
This muscular organ stores urine until it is ready to be eliminated from the body
What is the bladder?
300
Urea and excess water
What are examples of wastes that need to be eliminated from the body?
300
This chemical causes cilia to clump so that they cannot keep harmful materials out of the lungs.
What is tar?
300
Throat is another name for this part of the respiratory system.
What is the pharynx?
300
small, hollow sacs responsible for the exchange of gases
What are the alveoli?
400
Urine leaves the body through this small tube which is different sizes in the male and female bodies
What is the urethra?
400
Glucose and most of water
What are the materials reabsorbed by the blood?
400
Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, and atherosclerosis
What are common diseases associated with the respiratory system?
400
the nose, pharynx, trachea, bronchus, lung
What is the pathway of air?
400
These two body systems interact with the lungs.
What are the respiratory and circulatory systems?
500
Kidneys, lungs, skin, liver
What are the organs used to excrete wastes from the body?
500
Urea, water, glucose
What are the three main materials filtered out of the blood?
500
When people involuntarily inhale the smoke of other people's cigarettes.
What is passive smoking or second hand smoke?
500
Sticky material that moistens the air and keeps lining of respiratory system from drying out.
What is mucus?
500
This dome shaped muscle moves down toward the abdomen during inhalation.
What is the diaphragm?
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