The female system
Ovaries, oviducts, uterus, vagina.
Where eggs are made
The body must make eggs, carry them, and give a place for a baby to grow.
What do you think the female reproductive system must have to do all this?
What this lesson covers
The idea
The female system has two ovaries, which produce eggs and hormones; oviducts (fallopian tubes) linking each ovary to the uterus; the bag-like uterus, where a foetus develops; and the vagina, joined to the uterus by the cervix.
Where eggs are made
The body must make eggs, carry them, and give a place for a baby to grow.
What do you think the female reproductive system must have to do all this?
- Several parts, each with its own work
- Just one part that does everything
- No special parts at all
Parts of the system
Open each tab. The picture is a simple schematic.
Four sets of parts
The female system has a pair of ovaries, oviducts, a uterus and a vagina, with the cervix between the uterus and the vagina.
The female system has two ovaries, which produce eggs and hormones; oviducts (fallopian tubes) linking each ovary to the uterus; the bag-like uterus, where a foetus develops; and the vagina, joined to the uterus by the cervix.
Notes
The female system: ovaries (eggs and hormones), oviducts, uterus (where a foetus develops) and vagina, joined to the uterus by the cervix.
Check yourself
Which parts produce the eggs and release hormones?
What do the oviducts (fallopian tubes) do?
Where does a foetus develop?
What is the cervix?
- The oviducts. The oviducts connect each ovary to the uterus.
- The ovaries — correct. Yes!
- The uterus. The uterus is the bag-like structure where a foetus develops.
- Produce the eggs. The ovaries produce the eggs.
- Open into the outside of the body. The uterus opens into the vagina through the cervix. The oviducts connect each ovary to the uterus.
- Connect each ovary to the uterus — correct. Yes!
- In the uterus — correct. Yes!
- In the ovary. The ovary produces eggs and hormones.
- In the vagina. The vagina is joined to the uterus by the cervix. The foetus develops in the uterus.
- A bag-like structure where the foetus develops. That is the uterus.
- A narrow passage through which the uterus opens into the vagina — correct. Yes!
- A tube joining the ovary to the uterus. That is an oviduct.