Homeostasis animals and plants

When a threatening situation appears, what is the name of the instinctive mechanism used by animals to protect themselves?

• Flight or Run
• Hide and Seek
• Fight or Flight
• Run and Fight

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

• compensating
• homeostasis
• balancing
• routine

A deep sleep during which an animal slows down its body processes to save energy is called:

• Estivation
• Migration
• Graduation
• Hibernation

The shrinking of a plant's leaves due to lack of water is known as:

• shrinking
• extinction
• taxis
• wilting

What internal stimulus most likely drives a lioness to seek water?

• hunger
• thirst
• stomachache
• headache

What type of response is this?

• Instinctive
• Learned
• Internal
• External

What is it called when a plants maintain homeostasis?

• Adaptation
• Response
• Tropism
• Growth

When a plant responds towards a stimuli, it is called _________ tropism.

• Positive
• Negative

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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Why is the sensation of thirst important to maintaining homeostasis?

• Water removed by the kidneys must be replaced

• Oxygen cannot diffuse into cells if a person is dehydrated

• Water molecules are needed to carry carbon dioxide waste to the kidneys

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