Y7 Female Reproductive Organs Flashcards
What is the entrance to the female reproductive system?
Vagina
What can only come in and out of the vagina?
Periods can come out and sperm/semen can come in.
What is a period?
The clearance of the lining of the urethra and the clearance of the egg.
What does it mean when girls have a period?
It means approximately 28 days have passed and no sperm can fertilise the egg so the egg will go-and the lining.
What is it called when the egg meets a sperm?
Fertilisation
Where are the eggs released from?
The ovaries
What does the cervix do?
It is a muscle and has an entrance to the urethra.
What is the use of a bladder?
For the urine to come out.
What is the use of an oviduct?
An oviduct is the tube in which carries the egg to the urethra if it gets fertilised or coming out.
What is kept in a uterus if the egg gets fertilised?
The lining of the urethra and the egg cell.
Why do woman’s hips need to grow wider?
So then the body is capable of having a baby.
Why is the cervix needed?
So it can hold the baby in place.
What is the other name of the oviduct?
A fallopian tube
What is the egg tube lined with?
Little hair cells called cilia
What is the fold of skin called in the opening of the vagina?
Labia that meet so it can form a vulva.
