Homeostasis Quiz: Human Body System Questions
Homeostasis quiz: Human body system questions. Homeostasis is basically the body’s ability to maintain its internal processes taking into account what is happening in the environment that a living thing exists. The main mechanisms of homeostasis are body temperature, body fluid composition, blood sugar, gas concentrations, and blood pressure. Learn more about this by taking the quiz.
- 1.If the environment gets cold, we will often shiver in order to:
- A.
Lower the body temperature
- B.
Get frost bite
- C.
Increase body temperature
- 2.The maintenance of an organism’s internal environment is called
- A.
Homeostasis
- B.
Osmosis
- C.
Cell transport
- 3.Find all the words that could describe homeostasis (click all that apply)
- A.
Stable
- B.
Balance
- C.
Equal
- D.
Over
- 4.Homeostasis in the human body is often maintained by a:
- A.
Negative feed back loop
- B.
Positive feed back loop
- C.
Brain loop
- 5.The "cause" for something to happen is the
- A.
Stimulus
- B.
Response
- C.
Effect
- 6.What is the evaporation of a liquid to cool the body?
- A.
Sweating
- B.
Shivering
- C.
Breathing
- 7.Homeostasis is maintaining a stable external environment
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Find all the examples of the body showing homeostasis. (click all that apply)
- A.
Maintaining the body temperature of 98.6
- B.
Body regulating sugar in the body
- C.
Thinking
- D.
The body making you thirsty when you are dehydrated
- 9.Temperature, exercise, hydration, sugar levels, nourishment, and diseases all affect homeostasis.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.What happens to your body and homeostasis when you work out? Click all that are true
- A.
Muscles need more oxygen, so your heart beats faster increasing his heart rate, which pumps more blood, and then the blood delivers oxygen to the organs
- B.
You start to shiver to warm the body up
- C.
You start to sweat to cool the body down
- D.
The muscles get pumped from you pumping iron
- 11.What describes a lack of water in the blood?
- A.
Dehydration
- B.
Hydration
- C.
Nutrition
- 12.Diabetes is a disease where sufferers cannot control their blood glucose levels.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Most bacteria that cause sickness in humans grow best at 98.6oF. Sometimes a fever is the body's response to the bacteria. What is the reason for developing a fever?
- A.
The increase the temperature of the body to kill the bacteria
- B.
To lower the temperature of the body to kill the bacteria
- C.
To make you feel miserable
- 14.Balanced internal conditions inside the body is called ____________.
- 15.Maintaining homestasis is the difference between .... click all that apply
- A.
Life
- B.
Death
- C.
Cell transport
- D.
Diffusion
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