Across
- 4. Secreted when blood glucose drops below 5 mmol/L
- 9. Organisms that must make physical changes to regulate body temperature
- 11. Enlargement of the thyroid gland
- 12. Dangerously low blood sugar (below 4 mmol/L)
- 13. Concentration of a solute in the blood plasma
- 15. Stabilises the internal environment by reversing a change
- 16. Portion of the human brain that regulates temperature
- 19. Organism that generates its own body heat
- 21. Maintenance of a constant body temperature
- 22. Process upregulated by the liver in response to glucagon
- 24. Elicits a response after receiving a message
- 25. Interstitial fluid and plasma
Down
- 1. Detect changes in blood solute concentration
- 2. Modulator in blood glucose regulation
- 3. Speeds up a physiological response (response strengthens)
- 5. Formation of glucose from non-carbohydrate sources
- 6. Hormone secreted in response to increase in blood osmolality
- 7. Secreted from the beta cells of the islets of Langerhan's
- 8. System that receives a message and coordinates a response
- 10. Hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, acts on the thyroid
- 14. Detects changes in environment
- 17. Protein channel for movement of water
- 18. Dangerously high blood sugar (above 7.8 mmol/L)
- 20. Ability to maintain a constant internal environment
- 23. Filtration unit in the kidney