Homeostasis

What is meant by homeostasis?

• Controls and coordinates body activities through chemical

• controls and coordinates body activities through electrical impulses

• For maintenance of a steady state in the internal environment

• remove metabolic waste products from the cel

Which of the following is an example of positive feedback to indirectly maintain homeostasis?

• the chemical reactions involved in blood clotting
• your blood vessels dilate and you begin to sweat in response to elevated body temperature
• your blood vessels constrict and you begin to shiver in response to low body temperature
• your coach compliments you on your performance in practice

Homeostasis in the human body is often maintained by a: 

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

Positive feedback is when the change caused by the stimulus is

• decreased
• non existant
• increased
• changes constantly

When you get cut, your skin cells release hormones that signal platelets to come and stop the bleeding. Platelets then release more hormones that signal even more platelets to help stop bleeding. The hormone signals continue until the cut is closed.

• Positive Feedback Response
• Negative Feedback Loop 

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 

What is an example of a positive feedback mechanism?

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The two types of feedback systems that help organisms maintain homeostasis are:

• positive and negative 
• receptor and effector
• static and dynamic
• minor and major

Maintaining body temperature is an example of a:

• negative feedback loop
• positive 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 until puberty is reached, and then the hormones stop.

• Positive Feedback Response
• Negative Feedback Loop