Basics of the Urinary System & the Nephron

This is the organ that filters/removes waste from your blood

• urethra

• ureters

• kidneys

• bladder

This is the organ that stores your urine until you're ready to expel it out of your body

• urethra

• bladder

• kidney

• ureter

This is the tube that waste products leave the kidney through

• ureter

• nephron

• kidney

• urethra

It is through this passageway that urine exits your body

• ureter

• kidney

• urethra

• bladder

This is the filtering unit in your kidney that helps it to remove waste and excess water from your blood

• nephron

• renal artery

• renal vein

This is the tube in which blood enters your kidney

• nephron

• renal artery

• renal vein

These are the tubes that drain blood from the kidney and sends it back into the body to get oxygenated and then circulate again

• nephron

• renal artery

• renal vein

What is the outermost, smooth portion of the kidney called?

• renal medulla

• renal cortex

• renal pyramid

• minor calyx

What is the innermost part of the kidney called

• renal cortex

• renal medulla

• renal pyramid

• ureter

The zoomed in structure is the...

• major calyx

• minor calyx

• renal cortex

• renal pyramid