1.1.5 Movement & Control

Question 1

Movement is an action by an organism causing, what?

Answer 1

change of position or place

Question 2

The movement of an organism from place to place is called what?

Answer 2

locomotion

Question 3

Plants cannot move from place to place but can change their what?

Answer 3

orientation

Question 4

Living organisms must control their internal environment in order to keep conditions within what?

Answer 4

within required limits, this is known as Homeostasis

Question 5

Thermoregulation refers to the control of what?

Answer 5

body temperature

Question 6

The optimum human body temperature is what?

Answer 6

37°C

Question 7

If body temperature increases, what would happen?

Answer 7

mechanisms for control will be initiated to return the temperature back to the optimum

Question 8

Mechanisms for returning heat to optimum temperature include what?

Answer 8

Mechanisms include sweating or vasodilation

Question 9

Other homeostatic mechanisms in humans include what?

Answer 9

glucoregulation (control of blood glucose levels) and osmoregulation (control of water levels)

Question 10

Plants use what? to maintain a suitable temperature

Answer 10

Plants use transpiration to maintain a suitable temperature

Question 11

Water evaporates from the what? on the underside of the leaf, leading to heat loss

Answer 11

Water evaporates from the Stomata on the underside of the leaf, leading to heat loss