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By Mz.spongeboblover The Excretory System 6/10/10

Lots and lots of important systems in our body, let me name some. Muscular, Excretory, Reproductive, Digestive, are all important. But, the system is very important because if we didn’t have an excretory system the waste would pile up and we wouldn’t be looking like a million dollars in the morning. In other words we’d get very sick.

There are many[| organs in your excretory system.] The organs are called the Kidneys, the Urethra, the Bladder; all of the organs have functions. The kidneys filter the blood and the urine goes into the ureters. The bladder holds the urine until it leaves through the urethra.

In all of your whole body you can get diseases. In the excretory system you can have a disease called diabetes. When people go to the doctor’s office for a check up or to the hospital most of the time you get your urine checked. Most of the time it usually contains almost no protein or glucose. If glucose is present in urine you might have [|diabetes], a condition in which body cells can’t absorb enough glucose from the blood which can be a sign that your kidneys aren’t working properly. Another disease that’s not really a disease is that most people are born with two kidneys sometimes people are only born with one kidney and sometimes they are fused together. Like said before, if wastes weren’t removed from your blood they would pile up and make you sick. The excretory system is the system in the body that collects the waste produced by cells and removes the wastes from the body.

There are many ways you can keep this system healthy. One way you can keep this system healthy and from harm is to always go to the bathroom when you need to. Another way to keep your system healthy is to eat and drink healthy.

There are many different functions of the excretory system organs. The removal process is also known as excretion. Urine leaves through the urethra and that’s what the urethra is for to let all the waste that is being filtered let out of the body. The kidneys are filters for blood. The way that this works is that the blood first enters the kidneys through the renal artery. Processed by bush like tufts keeps necessary and removes excess fluid and waste. This excess is urine because it leaves the kidney travels to the Ureter enters bladder and waits to be let go. The two wastes the body must get rid of is extra water and urea. Kidneys act like filters for both of these things. And the wastes are eliminated in urine. Urine flows from the kidneys though two narrow tubes called ureter which then goes to the urinary bladder. The urinary bladder looks like a sack like muscular organ that stores urine. Each kidney contains about a million nephrons which are like tiny filtering factories the removes waste from the blood and produces urine. In the nephrons first both wastes and needed materials such as glucose are filtered out of the blood and wastes are eliminated out of the body.

The digestive system, the reproductive system, circulatory, and endocrine system. My system connects with the digestive system because the dig. system helps the food to break down. It connects with the reproductive system because it stores the urine in the bladder until it leaves through the urethra. the excretory system connects with the circulatory system because the blood provided from the circulatory system is passed through one of the two kidneys and it's also in the urea that is filtered .The endocrine system is connected because it needs to monitor the excretory system to see if it is filtering the urea, urine for a safe environment for the cells.

The liver is another important part of our system. The liver recycles the old red blood cells. Some wastes need to be broken down before they can be excreted Urea is produced by liver which converts part of the hemoglobin molecule from old red blood cells into substances such as bile.

The first stage of waste removal is blood enters kidneys blood flows through smaller and smaller arteries then reaches capillaries in a nephron, in capillaries is a small thin walled hollow capsule that’s connected to tube. In the capillary cluster urea, glucose, and some water move out of the blood and into the capsule instead they remain in the capillaries. As kidneys filter blood they help maintain homeostasis by regulating the amount of water in your body. As urine is being formed, water passes from the tube back into the bloodstream. In the lungs and skin some waste is removed by the lungs when you exhale carbon dioxide and some water are removed from the body. The top of the kidneys start on each side of the spine in the back of your body near your waste. The primary function of the excretory system is to get rid of waste and make sure to get out all nutrients.

Now do you know why the excretory system is important? We looked at diseases, how to keep your system healthy, and the functions of organs, why it is important, the names of the organs, the primary function and where it is in your body. If you don’t think you’re going to remember all of this information you can always make up a song about it. But there is no system that we can live without in our bodies so make sure you take care of yourself everyday. Look at my awesome Diagram, Bibliography, and Web of the Excretory System