The Female Reproductive System Makes Ova (Eggs)

Question 1

What are ova?

Answer 1

Female gametes

Question 2

How often is an ovum (egg) produced?

Answer 2

Every 28 days from one of the two ovaries

Question 3

What does the egg then do?

Answer 3

Passes into the Fallopian tube - this is where it might meet sperm that have entered the vagina during sexual intercourse

Question 4

What happens if the egg isn’t fertilised by sperm?

Answer 4

The ovum will break up and pass out of the vagina

Question 5

What happens if the egg is fertilised?

Answer 5

The ovum starts to divide. The new cells will travel down the Fallopian tube to the uterus (womb) and attach to the endometrium (uterus lining)

Question 6

What does a fertilised ovum develop into?

Answer 6

An embryo

Question 7

Muscular uterus wall -

Answer 7

N/A

Question 8

Ovary -

Answer 8

Organ that produces ova and sex hormones

Question 9

Endometrium (lining of uterus) -

Answer 9

Has food blood supply for implantation of an embryo

Question 10

Cervix -

Answer 10

Neck of the uterus

Question 11

Vagina -

Answer 11

Where the sperm are deposited

Question 12

Vulva -

Answer 12

N/A

Question 13

Uterus (womb) -

Answer 13

Organ where an embryo grows

Question 14

Fallopian Tube (oviduct) -

Answer 14

Muscular tube that carries the ovum from the ovary to the uterus