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Parts of the Respiratory System
Excretion

Diseases and Smoking
Respiration
Parts of the Excretory Sytem
100
What is the grape-like sacs of lung tissue that move gases between air and blood.
What are alveoli?
100
This organ filters blood and regulates the amount of water is your body.
What are the kidneys?
100
A disease that causes tumors and death from to much smoking.
What is lung cancer?
100
Flap of tissue that blocks food from moving into the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
100
Liquid waste elimated from the body.
What is urine?
200
The windpipe
What is trachea?
200
This organ removes wastes such as water and salt from the body.
What is the skin?
200
A disease that destroys lung tissue and causes breathing difficulties.
What is Emphysema?
200
One cell thick netting system that covers the alveoli
What are capillaries?
200
Saclike muscular organ that stores urine.
What is bladder?
300
Air moves from the nose into the throat or this structure.
What is Pharynx?
300
This organ breaks down wastes before they can be excreted.
What is liver?
300
This chronic irritation can cause the small breathing passages to become narrower and clog with mucus.
What is bronchitis?
300
Muscle that moves up and down when the lungs fill with air.
What is the diaphragm?
300
Two narrow tubes that lead from the kidneys to the bladder.
What is the ureters?
400
These two passage ways branch off the trachea.
What is Bronchus?
400
A lab will use a dipstick to test urine for diabetes. The lab is checking this.
What is your glucose?
400
The buildup of fatty material on the blood vessel walls that can lead to a stroke or heart attack.
What is Atherosclerosis?
400
Folds of connective tissue that produce your voice.
What are the vocal cords?
400
Urine leaves the body through this small tube.
What is the urethra?
500
Smaller passage ways that stem off the bronchus
What is the broncheoles?
500
Filtration of wastes take place inside the kidneys in these structures.
What are nephrons?
500
A dangerous chemical in tobacco that produces an addiction.
What is nicotine?
500
Rings of this line the trachea.
What is cartilage?
500
The removal process which the body rids itself of toxins and wastes.
What is excretion?