Homeostasis

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

• compensating
• homeostasis
• balancing
• routine

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

which of the organ will balance the glucose level in the body?

• Stomach
• Small intensine
• Deodenum
• Pancrease

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

When you are hot, your body sweats to cool you down. This means your temperature went above normal and your body sweats to counteract that change to bring you back to normal. What kind of feedback loop would this be?

• Negative Feedback Loop

• Positive Feedback Loop

• Neutral Feedback Loop

• Linear Feedback Loop

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

These detect changes in the environment

• Control Center

• Sensors

• Communication System

• Target

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

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 

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Which body system usually acts as the control system in the body to maintain homeostasis?

• excretory

• nervous

• circulatory

• skeletal

The group of organisms that use the process of homeostasis includes

• mammals, only

• animals, only

• plants and animals

• all living things

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

chemical made by glands that elicits a response in some way.

• acid

• enzyme

• perspiration

• hormone

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 

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3