Homeostasis 1

Multiple Choice

The maintenance of an organism’s internal environment is called:

• compensating
• homeostasis
• balancing
• routine

Multiple Choice

The group of organisms that use the process of homeostasis includes

• mammals, only

• animals, only

• plants and animals

• all living things

Multiple Choice

What part of the negative feedback loop is what happens inside of the organism, as the result of the effector?

• Initiation event

• Response

• Receptor

• Effector

Multiple Choice

A change inside of the organism caused by the initiation event is the ...

• response

• effector

• control center

• stimulus

Multiple Choice

Which part of the feedback loop is a body part that makes a change to bring the system back to homeostasis?

• Effector

• control center

• response

• receptor

Multiple Choice

What detects that the system is outside of homeostasis and adjustments need to be made?

• effector

• response

• control center

• stimulus

Multiple Choice

Scenario: A person begins to exercise which causes their body temperature to increase. The temperature change is noticed and the person begins to sweat and their body temperature decreases. (Identify the initiation event.)

• temperature change is noticed

• person begins to sweat

• body temperature decreases

• person begins to exercise

Multiple Choice

Scenario: A person begins to exercise which causes their body temperature to increase. The temperature change is noticed and the person begins to sweat and their body temperature decreases. Identify the stimulus event.

• body temperature increases

• person begins to sweat

• temperature change is noticed

• person begins to exercise