Organs of Excretion
This organ removes carbon dioxide and water vapor.
What are the lungs?
This liquid waste is made by the kidneys.
What is urine?
This waste gas is produced by cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
Blood enters the kidney through this artery.
What is the renal artery?
Painful mineral buildup in the kidneys.
What are kidney stones?
This organ produces sweat to cool the body and eliminate wastes.
What is the skin?
These organs filter blood and make urine.
What are the kidneys?
This nitrogen-containing waste is formed when protein is broken down.
What is urea?
These structures inside the kidney filter blood.
What are capillaries (or glomerulus/nephrons)?
This infection affects parts of the urinary system.
What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)?
This organ removes solid waste left over from digestion.
What is the large intestine?
This carries urine from the kidney to the bladder.
What are the ureters?
Urine removes excess water, salts, and this nitrogen compound.
What is ammonia?
Urine collects in these tubes after leaving the kidneys.
What are the ureters?
This is needed when kidneys stop working.
What is dialysis?
This organ filters toxins from the blood and produces bile.
What is the liver?
This stores urine before it leaves the body.
What is the urinary bladder?
The liver excretes this protein pigment in bile.
What is bilirubin?
The clean blood exits the kidney through this vein.
What is the renal vein?
These symptoms may indicate a kidney stone (name two).
What are pain while urinating, blood in urine, sharp pain in back or abdomen?
This organ system works independently, unlike others that function together.
What is the excretory system?
These are the tiny filtering units in the kidneys.
What are nephrons?
The glomerulus helps filter out substances like this from the blood.
What is urea (also accept: salts, sugars, water)?
This pressure pushes waste out of the blood into the nephron.
What is blood pressure?
Name two causes of kidney failure.
What are injury, blood loss, or toxins/drugs?