The Exceratory System

Question 1

Where are the kindeys located

Answer 1

At the back lower half of the body

Question 2

What are the functions of the kidney

Answer 2

Removes waste
Returns needed susbstances for the body to reuse
Regulate body fluids

Question 3

What are the waste products that are excreted

Answer 3

Nitrogen compunds
Ammnonia
Urea

Question 4

What are nitrogen compounds originally

Answer 4

Breakdown of proteins

Question 5

What does Ammonium need

Answer 5

Needs to be broken down since its too toxic

Question 6

Kidney

Answer 6

Fist sized, located on either side of our spine an surrounded by fat.

Question 7

Ureters

Answer 7

Muscular tubes that remove urine from the kidney

Question 8

Urinary bladder

Answer 8

Storage for urine controlled by spincters.
The inner spincter is controlled by the brain.

Question 9

Why is the innermost spincter of the kidney controlled by the brain

Answer 9

Its like a wake up call to go to the bathroom

Question 10

Uretha

Answer 10

Tube were urine exits the body

Question 11

Uretha for males

Answer 11

20cm long and are mixed with reproductive features

Question 12

Uretha for females

Answer 12

4cm long and are separeate from reproductive features.

Question 13

What do kindeys have in millions

Answer 13

Nephrons

Question 14

What are jobs of nephrons

Answer 14

To filter blood and creating urine.

Question 15

What are the parts of the kidney

Answer 15

Renal cortex, renal medula, renal pelvis

Question 16

What are the parts of the nephron

Answer 16

Glomerular filtration
Tubular rebsorption (proximal tubule)
Loop of Henle
Distal tubule
Collecting duct

Question 17

What do nephrons look like

Answer 17

Look like spikes on to of the renal pelvis

Question 18

What is the job of the renal capilary

Answer 18

Bring blood to the bowmans capsule

Question 19

What is the job of the renal vein

Answer 19

Take blood to the heart

Question 20

Golmerular Filtration

Answer 20

Renal artery enters into the bowmans capsule and splits into capilaries

Question 21

Glormerulus

Answer 21

Capilary bed

Question 22

Why does filtration occour

Answer 22

1 There are many pores in walls
2 High blood pressure in glomerous

Question 23

What is filtrate identical to

Answer 23

Blood plasma contents

Question 24

Tubular Reabsorption

Answer 24

A tube that is used for reabsorption and returning some fluids back to the body

Question 25

What is another name for Tubular Reabsoption

Answer 25

Proximal Tubule

Question 26

What supports active transport

Answer 26

Microcondria

Question 27

Which substances are actively transported

Answer 27

Na Glucose Other solutes (Anything positive)

Question 28

Which substances are passively transported

Answer 28

Negative Cl K Water (Usually anything negative)

Question 29

Loop of Henle

Answer 29

Is a small loop that has a descending and ascending part Is the site of active and passive transport

Question 30

What parts of the loop of Henle are actively transported

Answer 30

Accending top half

Question 31

What parts of the loop of Henle are Passively Transported

Answer 31

Decending to the middle

Question 32

What are features of the decending Henle loop

Answer 32

Permable to water Non permable to ions Lower loop is salty

Question 33

What is the top half of the exceratory system called

Answer 33

Cortex

Question 34

What is the bottom half of the exceratory system called

Answer 34

Medulla

Question 35

What transport does the decending loop of Henle use

Answer 35

Passive Transport

Question 36

What is the decending loop of henle permable to

Answer 36

Water

Question 37

What is the decending loop of henle not permable to

Answer 37

Ions

Question 38

What is the accending loop of henle

Answer 38

Impermeable to water Permable to solutes and Na+

Question 39

What is the thin part of the accending henle

Answer 39

Impermable to water but not to solutes

Question 40

What is the thick part of the accending henle

Answer 40

Actively transports Na+

Question 41

Why are there high concentrations of water near the end

Answer 41

Since water was removed

Question 42

Distal Tubule

Answer 42

K and H are actively secreted into it Same with penicillin

Question 43

What does reabsoprtion in the distal tube depend on

Answer 43

What the requirments of the body are (thirsty)

Question 44

What is the job of the collecting duct

Answer 44

Filtrate is collected, still contains water. Water becomes reabsorbed casuing a higher concentration

Question 45

What is the final state of the collecting duct

Answer 45

Becomes urine and is 1% of the orignal

Question 46

Renal vein

Answer 46

Reutnred to the body (absorbed water)

Question 47

What does the amount of water absorbed contribute to

Answer 47

Volume and concentration of blood

Question 48

Osmotic pressure

Answer 48

Solute concentration Force generated by osmosis

Question 49

What does drinking too much mean

Answer 49

Kidney allows more water into unrine

Question 50

What does dehydration mean

Answer 50

Kidneys conserve water by producing concentrated urine

Question 51

What does ADH stand for

Answer 51

Anti directic hormone

Question 52

What does ADH do

Answer 52

Makes you pee less and water is absorbed more. Reuglates osmositic pressure absorbing water

Question 53

Diuretic

Answer 53

Makes you pee more increasing the volume of urine. Decreases permability of tubules Leads to dehydration

Question 54

What are some examples of diruetics

Answer 54

coffee, alcohol

Question 55

What parts of the brain make ADH

Answer 55

Tlpothalymus (creates it) Posterior puteriary gland (Secretes ADH)

Question 56

Diabetes inspidus

Answer 56

ADH does not work casuing dehydration, and quick pee Treated by synthetic ADH

Question 57

What mixed with ADH causes high blood pressure

Answer 57

ADH and Aldostose

Question 58

Aldosterone

Answer 58

Reabsorbes Na in distal tubule and collecting duct bring water and Cl- with it. Secretes K ions if too much K

Question 59

What does acidic blood do

Answer 59

Secrete H and reabsorb HCO3

Question 60

What does basic blood do

Answer 60

Does not secrete H or absorb HCO3

Question 61

What does H do

Answer 61

Represents acid

Question 62

What does HCO3 do

Answer 62

Means basic

Question 63

Dialysis

Answer 63

Machine that acts like a kidney