The urinary System (lesson 2)

Question 1

What does the urinary system maintain?

Answer 1

Water balance and filters blood

Question 2

What are the three main regions of the kidney? (renals)

Answer 2

1) Renal cortex
2) Renal medulla
3) Renal pelvis

Question 3

What must be removed to form urine?

Answer 3

Metabolic wastes (wastes you don’t need)

Question 4

Where is urine created?

Answer 4

Nephrons of kidney

Question 5

What are the three steps (ONE WORD) on how urine if created?

Answer 5

1) Filtration
2) Reabsorption
3) Secretion

Question 6

Wastes in the blood diffuse by passive transport from Glomerulus into the Bowman’s capsule

Answer 6

Filtration

Question 7

Whats in the filtrate at the Bowman’s capsule?

Answer 7

-Water
-Urea
-Glucose
-Amino acids
-Vitamins
-Salts and other ions

Question 8

What can’t get though the walls of glomerulus?

Answer 8

RBC, WBC, platelets, fats, and plasma proteins

Question 9

Useful materials reabsorbed into blood by active transport

Answer 9

Reabsorption

Question 10

Substances reabsorbed in the proximal convoluted tubule and loop of Henle

Answer 10

-Water
-Glucose
-Amino Acids

Question 11

Large wastes enter nephron through active transport, are filtered, modified, and exist through collecting tubules

Answer 11

Secretion