Questions (Kearley) well answered
2025/2026
What three processes form urine? - correct answer ✔✔filtration, reabsorption, secretion
A kidney stone is in the ureter, where will it go next? - correct answer ✔✔urinary bladder
What is filtered at the glomerulus? - correct answer ✔✔blood
High levels of glucose in the urine indicates: - correct answer ✔✔diabetes mellitus
When filtrate is in the loop of Henle, where will it go next? - correct answer ✔✔distal
convoluted tubule
Where do filtration, reabsorption, and secretion take place? - correct answer ✔✔filtration-
glomerulus; reabsorption- proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle, distal convoluted tubule,
collecting duct; secretion- proximal tubule
How would someone remove lead from their bloodstream? - correct answer ✔✔large intestine
If your blood sugar was too high, then what gland is not producing enough of its hormone? -
correct answer ✔✔pancreas
What is the corpus luteum? - correct answer ✔✔forms from remnants of the ruptured follicle,
produces the hormone progesterone and estrogen
, If you were chased by a bear, hormones from this gland would be released to help you run
away. - correct answer ✔✔adrenal gland
If filtration were not occurring, what would happen to you? - correct answer ✔✔there would be
too many solutes, waste products, and water in the blood
A substance has just left the circulatory system and gone into the nephron. What what the
process/processes that placed that substance in the nephron? - correct answer ✔✔blood;
secretion, filtration (peritubular capillaries into the nephron)
What hormone is secreted at its highest levels at the time of the corpus luteum formation? -
correct answer ✔✔luteinizing hormone
What are the blood vessels called that wrap around the nephron? - correct answer
✔✔peritubular capillaries
The secretion of hormones by the pituitary gland directly affects the production of what other
hormones? - correct answer ✔✔luteinizing hormone, testosterone, progesterone,
adrenocorticotropic hormone, cortisol, thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyroxine
This gland is large in children, but absent in adults. - correct answer ✔✔thymus gland
If you have a goiter, how'd you get that? - correct answer ✔✔not enough iodine
Type 1 diabetes is caused when cells in the ________ are destroyed. - correct answer
✔✔pancreas