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As your blood travels in your body, it
becomes polluted with wastes. Eventually
it enters your kidneys. The blood is
cleaned by it. Your kidneys remove waste,
then sending the blood into the bladder as
urine. It takes about 45 minutes for your
kidneys to filter all the blood in your body.
 The adult kidney is about 7.5 in. long
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The bladder is a flexible bag made of a
web of muscles. Urine collects in the
bladder until it exits out of the body
through the urethra. When your bladder
fills to 100% capacity a voluntary muscles
becomes in voluntary and you in instantly
urine
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The urethra is a tube than carries urine to
the bladder and out the body.
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The Ureters transport urine from the
kidney to the bladder. They are also a
yellowish color that comes from the renal
helium.
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The eccrine a small sweat gland that
produces only a fluid, restricted to the
human skin.
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Lungs give off carbon dioxide, a bodily
waste during respiration.
1 How many kidneys are in the excretory
system?
 Answer: 2 kidneys
 2 Which Kidney is bigger?
 Answer: left kidney
 3 What can you do to keep the
excretory system healthy?
 Answer: Excrete the waste stored in it.
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