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What is homeostasis?
Maintaining a stable internal environment despite changing conditions
Maintaining a constant external environment
Changing an internal environment within the body
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Why does the body need to maintain optimal conditions?
For slow enzyme action and cell function
To kill pathogens
For optimal enzyme action and cell function
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Which of these are considered 'internal conditions'?
(Select all that apply)
Blood glucose concentration
Blood pH
Room temperature
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True or false? Homeostasis ensure internal conditions stay exactly constant, they don't fluctuate at all.
True
False
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Which of these are considered 'external conditions'?
(Select all that apply)
Room temperature
The amount of fluids you drink
Blood oxygen concentration
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effector / receptor
Homeostasis relies on automatic control systems.
In what order are signals passed along the control system?
âž” coordination centre âž”
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What is the role of a receptor?
Detects changes in the internal or external environment
Carries out the response
Interprets changes and organises a response
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What is the role of a coordination centre?
Carries out the response
Interprets changes and organises a response
Detects changes in the internal or external environment
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Where are the coordination centres located in the body?
(Select all that apply)
Spinal cord
Brain
Muscles
Skin
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Name the two types of effectors and state what they do.
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Is the nervous system or the endocrine system faster acting?
Nervous
Endocrine
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Which system acts more generally across the body, the nervous system or the endocrine system?
Endocrine
Nervous
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Homeostasis relies on a system of , meaning whenever the levels of something get too high they're brought back down, and whenever the levels of something get too low, they're brought back up.
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If our body temperature gets too high, negative feedback will cause our temperature to:
Increase further
Decrease back down
It won't do anything
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How does negative feedback work?
Any change in a system causes an action that reverses the change
Any change in a system causes an action that amplifies the change
Stops any changes from taking place
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What is the role of effectors?
Carry out the response
Interpret changes and organises a response
Detect changes in the internal or external environment
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What type of feedback does homeostasis depend on?
No feedback
Inverse feedback
Positive feedback
Negative feedback
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The body controlling water levels an example of what?
Osmosis
Adaptation
Homeostasis
Evolution
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