Homeostasis
Define homeostasis.
What is the ability of an organism to maintain a stable internal environment.
The two types of feedback mechanisms
What is Positive and Negative Feedback
This produces a change in a variable.
What is a Stimulus?
What is a line graph?
Determine 3 necessary life functions.
Maintain Boundaries, Move, Respond, Grow
Digest, Metabolize, Excrete, Reproduce
The brain is considered this.
What is the independent variable?
Determine what maintains homeostasis.
What are feedback mechanisms.
An example of positive feedback graph. Label axis and give a title.
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Put the cycle in right order: Output, Control Center, Input, Stimulus detected
Stimulus Detected, Input, Control Center, Output
When creating a graph, name three requirements for graphing accurately.
Titled
Evenly and equally spaced axis
Large graph
Give three examples that your body keeps in balance through homeostasis
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Most common feedback in the body and nature
What is negative feedback
Identify the term in the homeostasis cycle that happens before it reaches the control center:Effector, Receptor, Variables Balance
What is a receptor.
The y axis portrays this variable.
What is the dependent variable?
If homeostasis is not achieved this occurs...
Fainting, Hypothermia, Heat Stroke or death
Sweating is an example of what feedback mechanism
What is a negative feedback mechanism
The Effector produces this to control homeostasis.
What is a Response?
Name the variable that can only change one thing.
What is the independent variable?