Urinary System Quiz

Erythropoietin

Controls erythrocyte production

The fatty tissue surrounding the kidneys is important because it ________.

Cushions the kidneys

The proximal convoluted tubule is the portion of the nephron that attaches to the collecting duct.

False

True or False: The urine drains from the collecting ducts into the renal pelvis, then to the major calyx and on to the ureter.

False

True or False: he blood flows from the renal artery to the segmental artery then the arcuate artery and on to the interlobar artery.

False

Kidney location

Left is higher than the right

The renal corpuscle is made up of ___________.

glomerular capsule and glomerulus

Place the following in correct sequence from the formation of a drop of urine to its elimination from the body. 1. major calyx 2. minor calyx 3. nephron 4. urethra 5. ureter 6. collecting duct

3, 6, 2, 1, 5, 4

Which of the following is not associated with the renal corpuscle?

A vesa recta

Which gland sits atop the kidney?

Adrenal

True or false: If you are Dave in "Safe Havens" and live hanging from a trapezes bar, you would not be able to get urine from your kidneys to your bladder.

False

The functional and structural unit of the kidneys is the ________.

Nephron

Which does not have a transitional epithelium?

Nephron Loop

Blood flows through the afferent arteriole, then the glomerulus, and then the efferent arteriole before it reached either peritubular capillaries or the vasa recta.

True

True or false: Most of the nephrons are cortical nephrons.

True

True or false: The inner urinary sphincter is smooth muscle is closed when it is relaxed.

True

True or false: The kidney can make glucose during fasting.

True

True or false: The kidney maintains water and water balance in the blood.

True

True or false: The position of the kidneys behind the peritoneal lining of the abdominal cavity is described by the term retroperitoneal.

True

True or false: The ureter transports urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.

True

Collecting ducts

are lined with cuboidal cells

The renal medulla

collecting ducts are found in the renal pyramid

Which of the choices below is not a function of the urinary system?

eliminates solid, undigested wastes and excretes carbon dioxide, water, salts, and heat

Urine passes through the

pelvis of the kidney to ureter to bladder to urethra

The renal plexus

regulates renal blood flow

Which is not true about juxtamedullary nephrons?

Have their tubing mostly in the cortex

The renal artery, vein and ureter exit/enter the kidney at the renal

Hilum

Urethra

The male also carries semen

The visceral layer of the glomerular (Bowman's) capsule

in part is made of foot processes of podocytes

The glomerulus

is covered with the visceral layer of the glomerular capsule