Excretory System Flashcards
What other systems aid with the excretory system?
The RESPIRATORY rids of C02 wastes but excretory of proteins.
URINARY- poop and pee
and INTEGUMENTARY- sweat wastes
What are the excretory systems jobs?
Collects cellular wastes and remove them from them from the body.
What are the parts of the urinary system?
Kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra
What is waste?
Urea.
When proteins are broken down in cells.
Urine= urea and wastes, other wastes like salts.
What are the organs of the excretory system?
Kidneys-filter blood and get urea out
Ureters- bring urine to bladder
Bladder- stores urine
Urethra- brings urines out of body.
How does filtering work?
1 million NEPHRONS (increase surface area) in kidney filter blood.
Waste and needed material leave blood and enter nephrons.
Needed material then moves back into blood and urines leaves kidney.
How do the circulatory and excretory work together?
RENAL ARTERY- brings waste filled blood to kidney .
RENAL VEIN- brings filtered blood back to heart.
How does the liver work?
It is a chemical factory that breaks down proteins to make urea.
Process:
Intestine