Bio Ch44 Activities Quiz

The urethra is identified by the letter _____.

Urine formed by a kidney collects in the _____ before being drained from the kidney by the _____ and transported to the _____.

Filtrate is formed as fluid is forced through the walls of the glomerulus and, initially, collects in the structure indicated by the letter _____.

The _____ are the major blood vessels transporting blood to the kidneys.

The outer part of the kidney is the _____.

Which of these is the functional unit of a kidney?

The movement of substances out of the glomerulus and into Bowman's capsule is referred to as _____.

The movement of substances from the blood into the proximal tubule is known as _____.

Which of these is reabsorbed from filtrate?

As filtrate moves down the loop of Henle, the surrounding interstitial fluid becomes _____ concentrated than the filtrate, so _____ leaves the filtrate.

The most abundant solute in urine is _____.

Which arrow indicates the direction of a gradient of increasing solute concentration in the interstitial fluid surrounding a nephron?

Glucose is removed from filtrate by _____.

Under the influence of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), _____ is produced.

Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) makes the _____ permeable to water.