GI Functions
GI During Exercise
Gastrointestinal Anatomy
Kidney Function During Exercise
Nephron Anatomy
100

Where is bile stored?

What is the Gallbladder

100

Risk for this type of cancer that is associated with the GI tract is reduced with physical activity?

What is colon cancer

100

What structure allows the passage of food from the esophagus into the stomach

What is the Esophageal Sphincter

100

What level of exercise intensity is considered optimal in supporting renal health? 

What is moderate intensity

100

This acts as a funnel for urine flowing to the ureter. 

What is the Renal Pelvis

200

This hormone causes the stomach to produce gastric acid (HCI) for dissolving, digesting some foods, and gastric motility.

What is Gastrin.

200

Sympathetic stimulation relaxes the GI tract and physical activity is effective in reducing ___.

What is constipation

200

What structure contains protein-digesting enzymes and HCL acid to aid in digestion

What is the Stomach

200

What hormone is produced when the kidney is subjected to hypoxia?   

What is Erythropoietin (EPO)

200

The network of capillaries that begins the filtration of blood.

What is the Distal Tubule

300

What systems main function is to coordinate food transit through the gut and trigger the proper hormones & enzymes for digestion?

What is the Enteric Nervous System

300

Women take _ times as long as men for solids to leave the stomach.

What is 2.

300

What divides the stomach from the duodenum?

What is the Pyloric Sphincter

300

Absorption of what cation is increased during exercise to account for its loss from sweating?

What is Na+ (sodium)

300

The fibrous tissue surrounding the kidney. 

What is a capsule

400

What macronutrient is broken down the quickest?

What are Carbohydrates

400

Women take _ times as long as men for liquids to leave the stomach.

What is ⅓.

400

Where most chemical digestion takes place, regulates stomach emptying via hormone pathways

What is the Duodenum

400

What increases in response to an increase in plasma renin during exercise? 

What is Angiotensin II

400

What gathers filtrate from the Glomerulus?

What is Bowman's Capsule

500

What is produced in the GI tract in response to food and inhibits appetite?

What is Peptide YY

500

When body core temperature increases, gastric emptying rate ____.

What is decreases.

500

What structure extracts H2O and Na+ from solid waste before they are eliminated? 

What is the large intestine

500

What mineralocorticoid is secreted by the adrenal medulla during and in anticipation of exercise?

What is Aldosterone

500

What reabsorbs  Na+, H20, and organic solutes?

What is the Proximal Tubule