Homeostasis

The term for maintaining internal temperature is: 

• Thermoregulation
• Thermometer
• Homeothermal
• Homeostasis

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If the calcium in your blood decreases below homeostasis levels, a gland in the brain will sense the decrease and send a chemical message to your bones. Your bones will release calcium into the blood, bringing blood calcium levels back up.

• Positive Feedback Response
• Negative Feedback Loop 

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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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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

Which system sends electrical messages that helps control the body's responses to internal and external changes?

• nervous
• endocrine
• reproductive
• integumentary

What hormone is produced in the pancreas that lowers blood sugar?

• Insulin

• Glucagon

• Ketones

• Glucose

These two body systems regulate feedback mechanisms.

• Skeletal & Muscular
• Skeletal & Endocrine
• Muscular & Nervous
• Endocrine & Nervous

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Homeostatic cooling mechanisms include

• piloerection and panting

• panting and vasoconstriction

• sweating and piloerection

• sweating and vasodilation

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Blood sugars are controlled by

• brain generated chemicals

• blood

• hormones from the pancreas

• chemicals from the liver

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The hormone that makes the liver store sugars is

• glucose

• glycogen

• glucagon

• insulin