Excretory System

Question 1

Function

Answer 1

To get rid of waste from the body

Question 2

Organs

Answer 2

Lungs,Liver, Skin, Kidney

Question 3

How waste is create

Answer 3

Cells produce waste products through cellar respiration

Question 4

Lungs

Answer 4

Exhales carbon dioxide

Question 5

Liver

Answer 5

Converts things into forms we can excrete (most important)

Question 6

Skin

Answer 6

Gets rid of heat,salts and some urea through sweat

Question 7

Difference between excretion and deification

Answer 7

Excretion= removal of wastes, Defecation=removal of faeces

Question 8

Kidney

Answer 8

Filters waste from the blood in the nephron then turns into urine, then it travels to bladder through the Ureter

Question 9

Urine

Answer 9

Made in kidneys, 95% water 5% urea, stored in bladder

Question 10

Ureter

Answer 10

Transports urine from kidney to bladder

Question 11

Bowman’s capsale

Answer 11

Cup like structure at the end of nephrons

Question 12

Glomerulus

Answer 12

Cluster of capillaries that surround the bowman’s capsale

Question 13

Bladder

Answer 13

Holds 500ml, waste from kidney goes here

Question 14

Urethra

Answer 14

Transports urine from bladder to outside the body

Question 15

Hemodialysis

Answer 15

Machine that takes blood from your body, filters it then returns it back in your body (when you have one kidney)

Question 16

Why drink lots of water

Answer 16

Dilute toxins