2.77a

2.77 Understand that homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant internal environment and that body water content and body temperature are both examples of homeostasis

• Homeo refers to something being the same and stasis refers to something being of fixed point or a set of conditions
• Homeostasis is the idea that conditions are kept the same or constant
• Thermic refers to temperature
• Homeothermic is the idea of maintaining the same temperature
• Mammals are homeothermic organisms that carry out a process caused thermoregulation
• Thermoregulation is an example of homeostasis
• Other organisms vary with environmental temperatures
• The reason why mammals wish to maintain a constant body temperature is because they wish to maintain body temperatures at optimum temperature which results in high rates of reaction