Chapter 10: Urinary System
Name and describe the organs of the urinary system (4 of them).
What are the functions of the urinary system?
What 3 substances are excreted in the nitrogenous wastes of the urinary system?
What do renin and erythropoietin do?
What organ produces these two hormones?
What are the 3 regions of the kidney?
What is a nephron? How many are there?
Describe the anatomy of a nephron (all five parts).
Describe glomerular filtration.
What are tubular reabsorption and secretion?
What role does alcohol play in the kidneys?
Describe urethritis, cystitis, pyelonephritis, kidney stones, and uremia.
What two disease often cause kidney failure?
What is hemodialysis?
What is CAPD?
What is a kidney replacement?
How do the kidneys maintain homeostasis (4 ways)?
Chapter 13: Nervous System
What is the nervous system?
What two types of cells does it contain?
What are the 3 types of neurons?
Describe the structure of a neuron.
What is myelin and what cell produces it?
What is a node of Ranvier?
What is saltatory conduction?
What is the resting potential?
What gates open in the action potential?
What happens to the voltage of the cell during an action potential?
What is a synapse?
What is stored in synaptic vesicles?
What ion enters the terminal and allows the vesicles to fuse with the presynaptic
membrane?
What are the 2 divisions of the nervous system?
What are the meninges?
What is meningitis?
What is CSF?
What two types of nervous tissue are present in the brain and spinal cord?
How long is the spinal cord?
What are the four parts of the brain?
Describe the cerebrum, including its four lobes and what they do.
Describe the diecephalon and what it contains.
What is the cerebellum?
What is the brainstem and what does it contain?
What is the limbic system and what does it contain?
What is memory (short term and long term), learning, and languate?
Describe the peripheral nervous system.
What are the two groups of the PNS? Describe each of them.
What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system?
Describe Alzheimer’s Disease. What causes it? Is it easily treated? How old are people
who get it?
Describe Parkinson’s Disease. What does it cause? What causes it?
How does alcohol affect the brain? Nicotine? Cocaine? Methamphetamine? Heroin?
Marijuana?
Chapter 14
What are sensory receptors?
Exteroceptors?*
Interoceptors?*
Chemoreceptors?
Photoreceptors?
Mechanoreceptors?
Thermoreceptors?
How does sensation occur?
What are proprioceptors?
Cutaneous receptors?
Describe the taste receptors
Describe the smell receptors
What are the two compartments of the eye?
What do each contain?
What are the 3 layers of the eye?
Describe the cornea
Describe the pupil
What is the iris?
What is the lens?
What does the retina do?
What kinds of receptors does it contain?
What are rods?
What are cones?
Describe color blindness
Cataracts
Glaucoma
Astigmatism
Nearsightedness
Farsightedness
Describe the outer ear
Middle ear
Inner ear
What is the pinna?
Auditory canal?
What is the tympanic membrane?
Malleus, incus, and stapes?
Eustachian tube?
What do the semicircular canals do?*
What is the cochlea?*
What happens when you have an inner ear infection?
Outer ear infection?
Middle ear infection?