CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS
E3.1 describe the anatomy and physiology of the endocrine, excretory, and nervous systems, and explain how these systems interact to maintain homeostasis
E3.3 describe the homeostatic processes involved in maintaining water, ionic, thermal, and acid–base equilibrium, and explain how these processes help body systems respond to both a change in environment and the effects of medical treatments (e.g., the role of feedback mechanisms in water balance or thermoregulation; how the buffering system of blood maintains the body’s pH balance; the effect of medical treatments on the endocrine system; the effects of chemotherapy on homeostasis) |
GLOSSARY
Homeostasis – the body’s process of maintaining stable physiological conditions.
Dynamic Equilibrium -
Monitor -
Coordinating Centre -
Regulator -
Ectotherm – an organism which depends on air temperature to promote metabolism
Endotherm – an organism which regulates its internal temperature despite the environment
Negative feedback – a response which negates an effect
Positive feedback – a response which amplifies and effect
Hormone – a molecular structure which is released in one area to cause an effect in another area
Anterior -
Posterior -
Goiter -
Dwarfism -
Gigantism -
Dynamic Equilibrium -
Monitor -
Coordinating Centre -
Regulator -
Ectotherm – an organism which depends on air temperature to promote metabolism
Endotherm – an organism which regulates its internal temperature despite the environment
Negative feedback – a response which negates an effect
Positive feedback – a response which amplifies and effect
Hormone – a molecular structure which is released in one area to cause an effect in another area
Anterior -
Posterior -
Goiter -
Dwarfism -
Gigantism -