1. Test yourself! Number your page and write down the answer to each question. How many will you get right? The Excretory System Chapter 11.3

2. The tube through which urine leaves the body.

3. Urethra

4. The poisonous chemical created by the liver during deamination.

5. Ammonia

6. The hormone produced by the hypothalamus that regulates water balance.

7. ADH Antidiuretic Hormone

8. Tubes that carry urine to the bladder.

9. Ureters

10. The part of the nephron that drains into the renal pelvis.

11. Collecting duct

12. The outer layer of a kidney.

13. Cortex

14. The organ that excretes heat from the body.

15. Skin

16. The transport mechanism by which water is reabsorbed.

17. Osmosis

18. The transport mechanism by which amino acids are returned to the blood.

19. Active transport

20. A bladder infection.

21. Cystitis

22. The network of blood vessels inside a nephron.

23. Glomerulus

24. The process of removing blood from the body “for cleaning”. (It is used by people with kidney failure)

25. Hemodialysis

26. A kidney infection.

27. Pyelonephritis

28. A toxic substance found with water in urine.

29. Urea

30. The loop of Henle from a nephron would be found in this region of the kidney.

31. Renal medulla

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