BLG 111 -Chapter 25: Urinary System
Questions and Answers.
What 4 ways do the kidneys maintain the body's internal environment? - Answer - regulating
total water and electrolyte
- ensuring long-term acid-base balance
- excreting metabolic wastes, toxins, drugs
- producing erythropoietin and renin --> activating vitamin D
Kidneys are part of which system? - Answer urinary system
What do the ureters do? - Answer transport urine from kidneys to urinary bladder
what is the function of the urinary bladder? - Answer temporary storage reservoir for urine
what does the urethra do? - Answer transports urine out of the body
What are the three distinct regions of the internal kidney? - Answer Renal Cortex
Renal medulla
Renal pelvis
What are minor calyces? - Answer Cup-shaped areas that collect urine draining from
pyramidal papillae
What are major calyces? - Answer Area that collects urine from the minor calyces
Starting in the renal pyramid, what is the pathway of urine flow? - Answer Renal pyramid,
minor calyx, major calyx, renal pelvis, ureter
Which part of the kidney is referred to as the "tubular component" ? - Answer nephron
Questions and Answers.
What 4 ways do the kidneys maintain the body's internal environment? - Answer - regulating
total water and electrolyte
- ensuring long-term acid-base balance
- excreting metabolic wastes, toxins, drugs
- producing erythropoietin and renin --> activating vitamin D
Kidneys are part of which system? - Answer urinary system
What do the ureters do? - Answer transport urine from kidneys to urinary bladder
what is the function of the urinary bladder? - Answer temporary storage reservoir for urine
what does the urethra do? - Answer transports urine out of the body
What are the three distinct regions of the internal kidney? - Answer Renal Cortex
Renal medulla
Renal pelvis
What are minor calyces? - Answer Cup-shaped areas that collect urine draining from
pyramidal papillae
What are major calyces? - Answer Area that collects urine from the minor calyces
Starting in the renal pyramid, what is the pathway of urine flow? - Answer Renal pyramid,
minor calyx, major calyx, renal pelvis, ureter
Which part of the kidney is referred to as the "tubular component" ? - Answer nephron
