MALE Reproductive System

Question 1

It is produced in the _____. It develops for two or three months in the ______. When the penis becomes erect, the sperm will leave the epididymis and travel up into the body through the _____. The sperm go from the ______ to the _____. As the sperm passes the prostate gland, the seminal vesicles, and the Cowper’s glands, ___ are added so that the sperm can live longer and swim more easily. The ____ carries the sperm (along with about 200 million other sperm) out of the penis in a process called _____. The sperm goes through the ____ and the _____ and into the _____, in search of an _____. If the sperm can find the ovum before the other sperm do, then it will be part of a fertilized egg

Answer 1

testicles; epididymis, vas deferens, urethra, fluid, urethra

cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, egg cell

Question 2

Allows passage of urine and semen Provides sensation (has many nerve endings)

Answer 2

PENIS (made up of shaft, glans, and foreskin)

Question 3

Protects the glans of the penis Provides sensation

Males who have been circumcised don’t have one

Answer 3

FORESKIN

Question 4

Muscular sac which is shorter when cold, longer when warm Holds testes Controls temperature
Provides sensation

Answer 4

SCROTUM

Question 5

Produces sperm and sex hormones (androgens and testosterone)Each is made of 500–1,200 feet of tightly coiled tubes

Answer 5

TESTES (also called

testicles)

Question 6

Allows maturation of sperm

Answer 6

EPIDIDYMIS

Question 7

Cell from a man called sperm

Sperm carry the strings of genes (called chromosomes) or DNA instructions in case the sperm meets with an egg cell and

Answer 7

SPERMATOZOA (sperm)

Question 8

Suspends the testicles
Supply blood to the testicles
Provide sensation
Carry sperm from the testicles

Answer 8

SPERMATIC CORDS

Question 9

Provides storage for sperm
Allow passage of sperm
Provides sensation
Carries sperm from the testes

Answer 9

VAS DEFERENS

Question 10

Contributes fructose (sugar) to semen for nourishing these perm

Answer 10

SEMINAL VESICLES

Question 11

Helps sperm live longer and travel better

About a teaspoon per ejaculation Contains hundreds ofmillionsof sperm

Answer 11

SEMEN

Question 12

Produces most of the fluid that makes up semen

Answer 12

PROSTATE GLAND

Question 13

Pair of glands
Produces pre-ejaculatory fluid (called “pre–cum”) that cleans the urethra to protect sperm. Some pre-ejaculatory fluid may contain sperm

Answer 13

COWPER’S GLAND (also
called bulbourethral
glands)