The Skin
These structures in the skin help excrete water, salts, and small amounts of urea.
What are sweat glands?
The lungs excrete this major metabolic waste product of cellular respiration in exchange for oxygen
What is carbon dioxide?
The liver stores this carbohydrate, which can be broken down later when blood glucose levels are low.
What is glycogen?
What is 2?
What is glucose?
This skin process helps regulate body temperature when we are hot
What is sweating/perspiration?
What is alveoli?
The liver contains many of these substances which help break things down.
What are enzymes?
These glands sit above each kidney
What are adrenal glands?
This disease occurs if the kidneys lose their ability to filter blood.
What is chronic kidney disease?
The outer later of skin
What is epidermis?
Alcohol can be detected through excretion via the lungs using this instrument
What is a breathalyzer?
The liver converts this toxic nitrogenous waste into urea.
What is ammonia?
These tubes carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder
What are ureters?
If your kidneys fail, this process can filter your blood by being hooked up to a special machine.
What is dialysis?
These are three main components of sweat.
What is water, salts, and urea?
What is water vapour?
The liver helps break down and recycle the components of these cells every 120 days.
What are erythrocytes/red blood cells?
This tube carries urine from the bladder to the external environment.
What is the urethra?
Name one of the three main steps of urine formation.
What is filtration/reabsorption/secretion?
Bacteria living on the skin decompose this substance which produces an odour.
What is urea?
These branching tubes carry air from the trachea
What is bronchi?
When the liver breaks down this substance from red blood cells, bilirubin is formed which is a component of bile.
What is hemoglobin?
These can create blockages in the kidney and make it very painful to pass urine.
What are kidney stones?
This cluster of capillaries performs filtration and sounds like the name of a LOTR Elf.
What is the glomerulus?