HOMEOSTASIS

Homeostasis is the body maintaining a balanced environment

• TRUE

• FALSE

Homeostasis is a self regulating process

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is the optimum temperature for the body to work effectively

• 36 degree

• 34 degrees

• 37 degrees

• 35 degrees

What is the type of feedback that detects a change in the optimum conditions?

• autonomic

• positive

• gradual

• negative

What does your body do to help you to keep warm ?

• Shiver, and hairs become erect

• Hairs lie flat and you sweat

• create heat by vasodilation

• digestion increases

Sweating enable us to cool down by the process of evaporation or radiation ?

• Evaporation

• Radiation

Being too hot results in which of the following ?

• VASODILATION

• VASOCONSTRICTION

What is the name of the part of the control centre within the brain that regulates temperature

• hypocampus

• hypothalamus

• hypopotamus

• hypothermia

Where in our body are our temperature receptors located

• eyes

• fingers

• skin

• tongue

When we are cold what happens to our hairs ?

• they lie flat

• they become erect