Kidneys
Where do I go?
Homeostasis
What do I do?
What is/What are?
100

How many kidneys do we have?

Two.

100

I go from the urinary bladder to the outside world.

What is the Urethra?

100

What does homeostasis mean?

Balance.

100

Blood is under high pressure here and toxins are pushed out of the blood to become filtrates.

What are the glomerulus and bowman's capsule?

100

involuntary loss of urine

incontinence

200

What are the functional (working) units of the kidneys?

The nephrons.

200

We carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.

What are the ureters?

200

the maintenance of the appropriate balance of water and salt

osmoregulation

200

This is where salt and water are reabsorbed.

What is the loop of Henle?

200

When a substance moves from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.

 diffusion?

300

What are the four functions of the urinary system?

getting rid of wastes, osmoregulation, maintaining acid-base balance, and secretion of hormones

300

I can hold up to 500 mL of urine before it passes through to the urethra.

What is the urinary bladder?

300

What are the three things the kidneys regulate?

The kidneys regulate water balance,electrolytes and the PH of blood.

300

this is where hydrogen ions are secreted or reaborbed.

What is the distal convoluted tubule?

300

kidney's filtration unit

nephron

400

What shape is the kidney?

The shape of a kidney bean.

400

I connect the proximal convoluted tubule and the distal convoluted tubule in mammals and birds. 

What is the loop of Henle?

400

this hormone is produced in the kidneys and liver and stimulates red blood cell production in the bone marrow when oxygen in the tissue cells is low

erythropoietin

400

This is where water balance takes place-the last chance before it exits the body as urine.

What is the collecting duct?

400

We are the three main parts of the kidney.

What are the medulla, the cortex, and the renal pelvis?

500

depression found on the concave side of each kidney

hilum

500

I encapsulate (surround) the glomerulus and catch the filtrates that are pushed out of blood.

What is the Bowman's capsule?

500

this vitamin acts as a hormone by regulating the amount of calcium and phosphorus in the blood

vitamin D

500

This is where glucose (sugar) and water are reabsorbed and become filtrate.

What is the proximal convoluted tubule?

500

These muscles must relax in order for you to release urine from your urinary bladder and urinate.

What are the sphincters?