Parts of the Excretory System
What does the excretory system do?
Body Fluids
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Your Health
100
The two bean shaped organs in the excretory system
What are the kidneys?
100
Your liver breaks these down if they are in your blood.
What are toxins?
100
This word starts with the letter 'e', and describes what sweat does when it is on your skin.
What is evaporate?
100
These organs filter blood.
What are kidneys?
100
The nervous system tells this part of your body when your bladder is full.
What is the brain?
200
It stores urine before excretion.
What is the bladder?
200
Nephrons separate this from useful materials in the blood.
What is waste?
200
This fluid carries waste from the liver to the kidneys.
What is blood?
200
This is a specialized filter in the kidney.
What is the nephron?
200
Sweating cools your body down and removes an excess amount of what?
What is heat?
300
It's the bigger of the two organs displayed here.
What is the liver?
300
The kidneys filter 45 gallons of blood and produce 2.5 pints of this per day.
What is urine?
300
Ureters carry this fluid from the kidneys to the bladder.
What is urine?
300
The name for the holes in the epidermis.
What are pores?
300
The book says that kidneys may not function properly due to cancer, other diseases and what other factor?
What is injury?
400
The tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body.
What is the urethra?
400
This process is your body's natural air conditioner.
What is sweating?
400
Sweat carries waste, water and what other thing?
What are salts?
400
Some people need to go through this process to clean their blood if their kidneys don't function properly.
What is dialysis?
400
When you are hot and thirsty, you can do this to hydrate your body.
What is drink water or other fluids?
500
The duct that collects urine from the nephrons.
What is the collecting duct?
500
Sweat leaves the sweat gland and goes onto the skin through these holes.
What are pores?
500
The renal vein carries blood away from which organ?
What are the kidneys?
500
You can tell this person's integumentary system is functioning because of what action the body is doing?
What is sweating?
500
You should do this every day for a minimum of thirty minutes to keep your body healthy.
What is exercise?