Homeostasis

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

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.

• False

• True

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

• STABLE
• EQUAL
• COMPLETE
• CORRECT

The term for maintaining internal temperature is: 

• Thermoregulation
• Thermometer
• Homeothermal
• Homeostasis

What is the evaporation of a liquid to cool the body?

• Shivering
• Sweating
• Vasodilation
• Vasoconstriction

What is involuntary contractions of voluntary muscles to warm up?

• Shivering
• Sweating
• Vasodilation
• Vasoconstriction

Excess of glucose will be stored in what form?

• insulin

• glycogen

• glucagon

• glucose

which organ will balance the glucose level in the blood by releasing hormones like insulin or glucagon?

• Stomach

• Small intensine

• large intestine

• Pancreas

Which hormone is released when blood sugar gets too high?

• glucose

• glucagon

• glycogen

• insulin

Which of the following correctly pairs the hormone and the response that it causes

• Glucagon - makes body cells take in glucose

• Insulin - makes body cells take in glucose

• Pancreas - makes liver release stored glucagon

• Liver - makes pancreas take in stored insulin