Kozian Feedback Loops

As you get dehydrated, your blood becomes thicker and harder to pump. Your kidneys will respond by stopping urine production, sending the water from urine into your bloodstream to thin your blood back to normal level.

• Positive Feedback Response
• Negative Feedback Loop 

Rapid growth during puberty causes your body to release more and more growth hormones. As you grow, more and more growth hormones are released.

• Positive Feedback Response

• Negative Feedback Loop

Negative Feedback Loops:

• amplify processes
• prevent small changes from getting larger
• are initiated during childbirth
• are found only in plants

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

What do we call a feedback that tends to damp down, reduce or counteract any deviation from an equilibrium, and promotes stability

• neutral feedback
• negative feedback
• positive feedback
• Can be both positive and negative feedback

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

A rise in temperatures can cause more evaporation and clouds. These clouds will, in turn, reflect more incoming radiation. Identify this type of feedback 

• positive feedback
• negative feedback

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

Rising global temperatures cause snow and ice to melt faster, thus create darker surfaces that will absorb more heat. Identify this type of feedback.

• positive feedback
• negative feedback

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

What type of feedback is shown by the image?

• open 
• closed
• positive 
• negative

Give another name for the term "albedo" of a surface.

• reflectiveness
• smoothness
• colour
• shape

True or False? Many different feedback loops can be occurring at the same time and make it difficult to predict how climate change will affect us.

• True
• False

What is another word that can be used to describe "homeostasis"?

• STABLE
• EQUAL
• COMPLETE
• CORRECT

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4