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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is involuntary contractions of voluntary muscles to warm up?ShiveringSweatingVasodilationVasoconstriction
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.If 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
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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
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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.
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True
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is another word that can be used to describe "homeostasis"?STABLEEQUALCOMPLETECORRECT
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The term for maintaining internal temperature is:ThermoregulationThermometerHomeothermalHomeostasis
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is the evaporation of a liquid to cool the body?ShiveringSweatingVasodilationVasoconstriction
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Homeostasis in the human body is often maintained by a:neutral feedback loopsolar feedback looppositive feedback loopnegative feedback loop
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.If 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
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The term for maintaining internal temperature is:
Thermoregulation
Thermometer
Homeothermal
Homeostasis