Homeostasis

What is mean 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

What is the key function of the respiratory system?

• digestion of food

• allows movement

• exchanges gases

• processes energy

Which organs make up the circulatory system?

• the heart, veins, blood vessels

• the brain, spinal cord, and nerves

• the kidneys, bladder, and ureters

• bones

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

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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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Which body system controls the body to maintain homeostasis?

• excretory

• nervous

• circulatory

• skeletal

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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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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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What is another word that can be used to describe "homeostasis"?

• STABLE
• EQUAL
• COMPLETE
• CORRECT

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Identify the stimulus that restores homeostasis.

Scenario: A person begins to exercise which causes their body temperature to increase. The temperature change is noticed (sensed) and the person begins to sweat and their body temperature decreases.

• temperature changes is noticed

• a person begins to exercise

• body temperature increases

• body temperature decreases

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