Practice Quiz on Homeostasis

Imagine you're a superhero! What would be your "control center"?

• Your superpower: The effector

• Your super-brain

• Your super-senses: the receptor

• Your super-defence: your immune system

Imagine you're a tiny creature living inside an organism. Your job is to maintain the internal environment. What would this process be called?

• compensating

• homeostasis

• balancing

• routine

Let's go on a journey! Can you arrange the levels of organization in the human body from the tiniest to the biggest?

• First stop: Tissue, second stop: Organ, final destination: Organ system
  

• First stop: Organ system, second stop: Tissue, third stop: Organs, final stop: Cells
  

• First stop: Cells, second stop: Tissue, third stop: Organs, final destination: Organ system
  

• First stop: Cells, second stop: Organs, third stop: Tissue, final destination: Organ system

Imagine you're a tiny robot inside a human body. What would be your job if you were in charge of the feedback loop?

• Would you be providing the body with extra energy?

• Would you be supplying the body with more food?

• Would you be constantly changing the conditions inside the body?

• Or, would you be ensuring that the conditions inside the body remain stable?

Imagine you're a detective in the world of biology! Can you tell which part of the feedback loop is the superhero that makes a change to bring the system back to homeostasis?

• Effector

• Control Center

• Response

• Receptor

Imagine you're a detective and you're trying to find the 'cause' for an event to occur. What would you call it?

• A response from the suspect

• An effector in the crime scene

• A control center of the event

• A stimulus that triggered the event

Imagine you're a tiny cell in a big organism. What could happen if you fail to maintain your homeostasis?

• You might lose your internal balance

• You might cease to exist

• You might struggle to carry on your metabolism 

• All of the above

Imagine you are a tiny organism, which part of your body would you use to sense changes happening inside you?

• Your tiny receptors

• Your control center

• Your effectors

• Your response system

Imagine you're a detective in the world of biology! Can you figure out who is the secret agent that detects a signal from another body part indicating that the system is out of balance and needs adjustments?

• The Effector

• The Response

• The Control Center

• The Stimulus

Brrr! It's getting chilly out here! Do you know why we often shiver when the temperature drops? Is it to:

• match our body temperature with the frosty weather outside

• make our body temperature drop even further

• crank up our body temperature

• keep our blood pressure in check