Quizziz Living Environment Regents Championship

Homeostasis

• allows for a wildly fluctuating internal environment
• is impossible in vertebrates
• is the maintenance of a relatively stable internal environment and often incorporates a form of feedback regulation
• is the maintenance of a relatively stable external environment and often incorporates a form of feedback regulation

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Homeostasis in the human body is often maintained by a: 

• neutral feedback loop 
• solar feedback loop
• positive feedback loop
• negative feedback loop

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When you are cold, you shiver and your blood vessels contract, which warms you up. When you are hot, you sweat and your blood vessels expand, which cools you down.  

• Positive Feedback Response
• Negative Feedback Loop 

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Which is the largest structure?

• Cells
• Tissue
• Organ
• Organism

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What is the key function of the respiratory system?

• digestion of food

• allows movement

• exchanges gases

• processes energy

Which two systems work together to maintain homeostasis while transporting oxygen throughout the body and removing carbon dioxide?

• circulatory and respiratory

• respiratory and excretory

• circulatory and digestive

• respiratory and digestive

How are viruses, fungi, bacteria, and parasites similar?

• they all carry out sexual reproduction

• they are all living

• they are all made up of cells

• they all contain genetic material

Antibiotics only cure ______________.

• viruses

• fungi

• parasites

• bacteria

What is the function of insulin?

• diagnose diabetes

• turn glucose into energy

• help glucose enter the cells of the body

• all choices

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Blood glucose is regulated by what hormone?

• Lipase
• Pancrease
• Prolactin
• Insulin

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