Homeostasis 1

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 name of the receptor that detect the rise and fall of body temperature?

• Thermoreceptor
• Osmoreceptor
• Baroreceptor
• Chemoreceptor

When the body temperature drop below normal ranges, arterioles in the skin will

• dilate to allow less blood to flow to skin surface

• constrict to allow less blood to flow to skin surface

• dilate to allow more blood to flow to skin surface

• constrict to allow more blood to flow to skin surface

What describes a lack of water in the blood?

• Dehydration
• Rehydration
• Hydration
• Concentrated

What is a disease where sufferers cannot control their blood glucose levels?

• Diabetes
• Influenza
• Cholera
• Cystic fibrosis

What is involuntary contractions of voluntary muscles to warm up?

• Shivering
• Sweating
• Vasodilation
• Vasoconstriction

If the environment gets cold, we will often shiver in order to:

• keep body temperature the same as the external temperature
• decrease body temperature
• increase body temperature
• regulate blood pressure

The term for maintaining internal temperature is: 

• Thermoregulation
• Thermometer
• Homeothermal
• Homeostasis

What is low blood sugar called?

• Hypoglycemia
• Hyperglycemia

This is the name of the simple sugar that is found in your blood?

• water

• glucose

• sodium

• sugar