Quiz Homeostasis: A Review

Question 1

The body system that consists of the skin, hair, nails, and sweat glands and provides protection and regulates body temperature is the

Answer 1

Hormones or integumentary

Question 2

Within five minutes, all of your blood is filtered by your kidneys. Without properly functioning kidneys, what would occur? *

Answer 2

Homeostasis would not be maintained

Question 3

Your body temperature during an illness is controlled by which of the following?

Answer 3

Positive Feedback

Question 4

Shivering and sweating are a part of which feedback?

Answer 4

Negative feedback

Question 5

What is the major difference between positive and negative feedback?

Answer 5

Positive feedback causes bodily processes to continue; negative feedback causes bodily processes to start or stop.

Question 6

Which of the following describes what happens when you are too hot?

Answer 6

None of these occur

Question 7

Endothermic creatures maintain fairly consistent body temperatures. Ectothermic creatures do not. Which of the following are the best animal Classes to represent “endothermic” and “ectothermic” animals?

Answer 7

Avian and Osteichthyes

Question 8

What from the list below is controlled by homeostasis?

water balance
carbon dioxide/oxygen levels
blood pH
blood sugar
all of these
None of these

Answer 8

All of these

Question 9

What animal has a body temperature that doesn’t change depending on the weather outside?

Answer 9

Frog