Fun Facts!
Disorders / Diseases
Lungs and Kidneys
Urinary Bladder/ Ureter and Urethra
Liver and Skin
100

Your body breathes 6 MILLION times throughout their life, expelling THIS waste material.

What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?

100

Mineral Deposits formed in the kidneys.

What is kidney stones?

100

Where are the kidneys located, and what shape do they resemble?

The kidneys are located just below the rib cage and are shaped like beans.

100

What is the function of the urinary bladder and urethra?

What is bladder used to store filtered waste material from the kidneys and sends chemical signals to your brain to dispose of it, the urethra is the tube structure that serves as a passageway to dispose of urine in the bladder?

100

The most critical job of the liver.

What is getting rid of ammonia through the urea cycle?

200

The bladder can hold up to 24 ounces of fluid, similar to a couple of.

 What is a couple of standard coda cans?

200

Symptoms include sudden urgency to urinate, pain during urination, and cloudy urine.

What is a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection)?

200

This waste product is removed via the lungs.

What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?

200

Where is the urinary bladder located? and what organ and bone is it connected to via ligaments?

What is the lower region of the abdomen, connecting to the kidneys and pelvis?

200

Tissue that makes up about 80% of the liver's mass and completes the organs metabolic work.

What is a hepatocyte?

300
The amount of hours a person spends urinating every year.

What is 17-19 hours every year?

300

What is Nephritis? (Include symptoms as well!)

What is the condition where the kidneys are inflamed due to infections in the kidneys, symptoms: swelling, high blood pressure, blood / protein in the urine can be seen?

300

These cells surround the lungs airways allowing for bronchoconstriction and bronchodilation to regulate airflow. 

What is smooth muscle cells?

300

Descrive the pathway of waste material starting from the kidneys ending with the outside of the human body.

What is the urine passing from the kidneys to the ureter into the bladder going to the urethra to the outside of the human body?

300

Glands in skin that secretes thicker, more viscous substances.

What is a Apocrine gland?

400

What is the function of the largest vein in your body.

What is the largest vein in your body moves through your kidney to clean and filter your blood.

400

Which organ(s) (name at least two!) are susceptible to the UTI disease?

What is the bladder, urethra, and kidneys?

400

Structural and Functional units of the kidneys.

What is a nephron?

400
List the job of the External Sphincter, including it's muscle type. (Voluntary or Involuntary?)

What is control of voluntary urination?

400
This type of gland excretes sebum.

What is a sebaceous gland?

500

This type of chemical helps plants grow.

What is urine containing the chemical urea which provides the plants with nitrogen.

500

Name the disease and it's symptoms. Treatment: Medication used to reduce the inflammation and alleviate symptoms,

What is Nephritis (Swelling, High Blood Pressure, and blood / protein found in urine)?

500

Kidneys do these things in our bodies everyday.

What is filtering 50 galloons of blood each day?

500

The urinary bladder contributes to homeostasis, how is that so?

What is storing and releasing urine that regulates water and electrolyte balance in the body.

500

The skin is composed of these three types of tissues. (If too hard, you may only be required to name two.)

What is the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis?