The Social Security System Has Five Major Benefit Programs, One

question 67

True/False

The Social Security system has five major benefit programs, one of which is Medicare.

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Definitions:

Heterotherms

Organisms that can switch between self-regulating their body temperature and allowing the external environment to influence it.

Ectotherms

Organisms that regulate their body temperature through external sources, rather than internal metabolic processes.

Endotherms

Animals that regulate their body temperature internally, producing their own heat.

Hypothalamus

Forebrain region that controls processes related to homeostasis; produces and controls release of some hormones.