Tiny hairs inside your air tubes that keep dirt away from your lungs
What is cilia?
200
They vibrate and produce sound when air passes through the opening between them
What is vocal cords?
200
Fluid waist excreted by kidneys
What is urine?
200
sticky substance that moistens air and traps dust and bacteria
What is mucus?
300
Filtering units in the kidneys
What are nephrons?
300
passage that allows air to travel from your mouth and nose into your trachea then down into your lungs
What is bronchial tubes?
300
a sudden, explosive exhalation through the nose
What is a sneeze?
300
Disease where glucose is present in urine
What is diabetes?
300
flap of cartilage that closes the opening to your windpipe when you are swallowing food
What is epiglottis?
400
The thick tube that goes from the bladder to outside the body
What is urethra?
400
tiny air sacs in your lungs that take oxygen from the air and put it inot the blood
What is alveoli?
400
A sudden, explosive release of air through the mouth
What is a cough?
400
Filtering units of the kidney; remove waste from blood and produce urine
What are nephrons?
400
the colorless gas that you breath out as waste
What is carbon dioxide?
500
Ring of muscles where the urethra is connected to the bladder
What is the internal sphincter?
500
The dome-shaped sheet of muscle that forms the bottom of the chest cavity and is necessary in breathing
What is diaphragm?
500
involuntary, short in-breaths
What is hiccups?
500
three organs of excretion
What are lungs, skin, and kidneys?
500
Process by which oxygen passes through wall of alveollus and then through capillary wall into blood and carbon dioxide passes out of the blood inot the alveoli