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Homeostasis

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name

Class

Date

The maintenance of an organism’s internal environment is called:

compensating

homeostasis

balancing

routine

Which body system controls the body to maintain homeostasis?

excretory

nervous

circulatory

skeletal

What type of feedback loop is shown?

Positive

Neutral

Negative

Name the levels of organization in the human body in order from smallest to largest:

Tissue, organ, organ system

Organ system, tissue, organs, cells

Cells, tissue, organs, organ system

Cells , organs, tissue, organ system

What is the point of a feedback loop?

To provide the body with more energy

To provide the body with more food

To make sure the conditions in the body are always changing

To make sure the conditions in the body remain stable

The "cause" for something to happen is called...

response

effector

control center

stimulus

Which part of the feedback loop is a body part that makes a change to bring the system back to homeostasis?

Effector

control center

response

receptor

Negative Feedback Loops:

amplify processes

prevent small changes from getting larger

are initiated during childbirth

are found only in plants

Failure to maintain homeostasis could result in:

lack of internal balance

eventual death

difficulty carrying on metabolism

all three

10.

The body part that senses the change inside the organism ...

receptor

control center

effector

response

11.

What detects a signal from another body part that the system is outside of homeostasis and adjustments need to be made?

effector

response

control center

stimulus

12.

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

13.

What type of feedback loop is shown?

negative

neutral

positive

14.

Maintaining body temperature is an example of a:

negative feedback loop

positive feedback loop

15.

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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Homeostasis

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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