Practice Test: Thermoregulation, Hormones, and Reproductive System

Matching skip

Short Answer skip

1. sexual intercourse
   
2. a thin walled, but strong muscular chamber that serves as the birth canal
   
3. composed of nervous tissue; stores and secretes hormones made by hypothalamus
   
4. warmed mostly by head generated by their own metabolism
   
5. lowers blood glucose
   

Multiple Choice skip

1. parents discharge gametes into water, where fertilization occurs, often without contact between the male and female
   1. urea
   2. copulation
   3. external fertilization
   4. prolactin
   5. hormone
2. neck at the bottom of the uterus
   1. prostate gland
   2. epinephrine and norepinephrine
   3. osmoconformers
   4. cervix
   5. renal cortex
3. transfer of heat by the movement of air or liquid past a surface
   1. convection
   2. mineralocorticoids
   3. uric acid
   4. bowman's capsule
4. most toxic of all metabolic by-products; most aquatic animals' waste
   1. diabetes mellitus
   2. renal cortex
   3. pineal gland
   4. ammonia
   5. seminal vesicles
5. stimulate uterine-lining growth; promote development and maintenance of female secondary sex characteristics
   1. anterior pituitary
   2. convection
   3. estrogen
   4. posterior pituitary
   5. glucagon

True or False skip

1. water and virtually all other molecules small enough to be forced through the capillary wall enter the nephron tubule from the glomerulus
   filtration

   True   False

2. involved in rhythmic activities - daily and seasonal
   melatonin

   True   False

3. loss of heat from the surface of a liquid that is losing some of its molecules of a gas
   hypothalamus

   True   False

4. hormonal disease in which body cells are unable to absorb glucose from the blood
   endotherm

   True   False

5. lowers blood calcium level
   calcitonin

   True   False