Other Species
Has two chambered heart with a single loop
What is a shark?
Structure in humans similar to lamellae in sharks.
What are alveoli?
urea (cell waste) + excess water = ........
Humans can survive at temperatures 10 degrees greater or less than 98.6 degrees F
What is no?
Ureters lead to the...
What is the bladder?
Use their muscles to take air in through holes in the sides of their bodies into tracheas which extend throughout their bodies and deliver oxygen to cells.
What are grasshoppers?
Humans, mammals, birds all rely on internal metabolic heat to maintain temperature
What are endotherms?
Removes waste products from the blood and turns them into urine
The biological process that allows humans and other organisms to maintain a steady body temperature
What is thermoregulation?
Large thin ears on elephants is an example of what kind of thermoregulation (evaporation, insulation, or surface area)
What is increasing surface area for heat loss through the thin skin as blood flows through?
Where sponges get all of their oxygen and nutrients directly from (all their body cells are directly exposed to it)
What is seawater?
Humans use lungs as a respiratory organ while sharks and fish use _________
What are gills?
Opening below the bladder
What are ectotherms?
_______________ blood enters the kidney.
What is unfiltered blood?
Has an open circulatory system
What is a grasshopper?
Multiple chambered heart, four chamber-heart, three chambered heart, two chambered heart
What are grasshoppers, humans, frogs, sharks?
A strainer separating pasta from water...
What is a good analogy for the kidneys filtering waste from blood?
Thick fur and fat on a polar bear...
Fat lining the feet of the emperor penguin...
What is insulation?
__________________ blood leaves the kidney
What is filtered blood?
1. Relies on circulatory system to deliver oxygen and nutrients.
2. Does not rely on circulatory system to deliver oxygen or nutrients
3. Relies on circulatory system to deliver only nutrients but not oxygen
1. What are humans (or sharks)?
2. What are sponges?
3. What are grasshoppers/insects?
What is....
Similar - Both evaporative cooling
Different - Elephant is behavioral, Human is structural
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Options for an individual with kidney disease
What are dialysis or kidney transplant?
Describe an example of structural thermoregulation in humans.
Example answers:
1. Sweat evaporates off skin and cools you down.
2. Blood vessels widening or constricting in to lose or keep heat.
3. Rapidly contracting muscles in shivering to warm up.
How sharks exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with seawater
What are millions of lamellae on the sharks gills?