The Epidermis
What does your body do to stay warm when you are cold?
What is shivering.
What is the function of the excretory system?
What is collect and eliminate wastes from the body.
What organs remove carbon dioxide and water vapor?
UV radiation doesn't affect us drastically because our skin offers us what?
What is protection.
What stores the urine?
What is the bladder.
What are the 3 sensations that the nerves in skin detect?
What is pain, pressure, and temperature.
What 2 systems filter the blood to produce urine?
What is the cardiovascular and excretory systems.
What organ eliminates water through perspiration?
What is the skin.
When our skin perspires it is doing what function?
What is eliminating wastes.
Where does the urine leave the body?
What is through the urethra.
What are the 3 wastes removed from the excretory system?
What is urea, carbon dioxide and water.
What 2 systems remove carbon dioxide and water?
What is the excretory and respiratory systems.
What organ is a sac-like muscle?
What is the bladder.
Your nervous system helps to do what function?
What is gather information
What is the name of the tube that connects the kidneys to the bladder?
What is the ureters.
How does the body cool down when you are exercising?
What is sweating.
What are the 2 body systems involved in gathering information for your nerves?
What is the Integumentary and Nervous systems.
What is the top layer of your integumentary system known as?
What is the epidermis.
Sweating, goosebumps and shivering are all things that our skin does to do what?
What is maintain/regulate temperature.
Where does the unfiltered blood get filtered and the excess wastes collected?
What is the kidneys.
Why is vitamin D important for the body?
What is it allows the body to absorb calcium.
What 2 systems remove excess water and urea from the body?
What is Integumentary and Excretory.
What organ breaks down proteins in the body to create urea?
What is liver.
The sun helps our skin to produce this.
What is Vitamin D.
What are the microscopic tubes that filter blood to create urine?
What is Nephron.