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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhat describes a lack of water in the blood?DehydrationRehydrationHydrationConcentrated
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a disease where sufferers cannot control their blood glucose levels?
Diabetes
Influenza
Cholera
Cystic fibrosis
- 3. Multiple Choice
This happens due to involuntary contractions of voluntary muscles to warm up
Shivering
Sweating
Vasodilation
Vasoconstriction
- 4. Multiple ChoiceIf the environment gets cold, we will often shiver in order to:keep body temperature the same as the external temperaturedecrease body temperatureincrease body temperatureregulate blood pressure
- 5. Multiple Choice
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
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is another word that can be used to describe "homeostasis"?STABLEEQUALCOMPLETECORRECT
- 7. Multiple ChoiceMost bacteria that cause sickness in humans grow best at 98.6oF. Sometimes a fever is the body's response to the bacteria. What is the reason for developing a fever?To lower the temperature of the body to kill the bacteriaThe increase the temperature of the body to kill the bacteriaTo allow the bacteria to take overTo make you feel miserable
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following animals has a body temperature that doesn't change depending on the weather outside?
- 9. Multiple Choice
What might happen if you didn't run a fever when you got sick?
You would recover much more quickly
Your body temperature would drop to dangerous levels
Your immune system would shut down
Your body wouldn't fight off the infection as efficiently as it could
- 10. Multiple Choice
You are growing a tomato plant in your house. Which of the following would the plant probably do to help maintain homeostasis?
Grow away from the light coming from the window
Grow toward the light coming from the window
Growth is not affected by the light coming from the window
- 11. Multiple Choice
Why does your heart beat faster when you exercise?
To provide your muscle cells extra oxygen
To provide your muscle cells extra carbon dioxide
To heat your body up
To make you feel more tired
- 12. Multiple Choice
The group of organisms that use the process of homeostasis includes
mammals, only
animals, only
plants and animals
all living things
- 13. Multiple Choice
The ultimate cause of death
Over Heating
High blood sugar
Bad Hair
Loss of Homeostasis
- 14. Multiple Choice
What part of a feedback mechanism is what happens inside of the organism, as the result of the effector?
Stimulus
Response
Receptor
Effector
- 15. Multiple Choice
A change of conditions inside of the organism is the ...
response
effector
control center
stimulus
- 16. Multiple Choice
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
- 17. Multiple Choice
The body part that senses the change inside the organism ...
receptor
control center
effector
response
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the evaporation of a liquid to cool the body?ShiveringSweatingVasodilationVasoconstriction
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of the following resources are NOT needed by ANIMALS to help them maintain homeostasis?
oxygen
water
food
carbon dioxide
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following resources are NOT needed by PLANTS to help them maintain homeostasis?
light
water
rocks
carbon dioxide
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