Exam 37: Maintaining the Internal Environment

The efferent arteriole leaving the glomerulus branches into ____.

Tubular reabsorption is the movement of water and solutes from the ____ to the ____.

How do some endotherms respond to high temperatures?

Why do marine bony fishes produce a very small amount of urine, whereas freshwater bony fishes produce a large volume of urine?

Which structures found in most insects take up waste solutes from hemolymph and deliver them to the gut for excretion?

The hormone that controls the concentration of urine is ____.

Animals that hibernate during a cold season are seasonal ____.

Ethanol (beverage alcohol) is an inhibitor of ADH. Therefore, a person consuming a couple of mixed drinks should excrete ____.

Describe the differences between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

Match the processes involved in urine formation with the correct description. -​first step in the formation of urine

Spiders and insects convert ____ to uric acid before excretion.

Four of the five answers listed below are functions of the nephrons in the kidney. Select the exception.

Four of the five answers are ways by which animals remove water and/or unwanted solutes. Select the exception.

​Match the excretory organ with the correct description. Answers may be used more than once. -​in flatworms, functions to ​remove excess water

Transfer of heat within an object or among objects that contact one another is ____.

Tubular reabsorption of water, nutrients, and sodium begins in the ____.

Antidiuretic hormone ____.

Match the processes involved in urine formation with the correct description. -concentrates the urine

Ammonia, a nitrogen containing-waste compound found in the blood, is a waste product of ____ breakdown.

​Match the excretory organ with the correct description. Answers may be used more than once. -in alligators, functions in the formation and excretion of uric acid