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What is shivering a sign of?
Shivering is a sign of loss of heat or decreased heat levels.
What is the effect if shivering?
Shivering helps the pores of the skin close, thus keeping in more heat in the body.
What does shivering cause you to do?
Shivering causes you too involuntary contract and relax your muscles to increase heat production.
What is the function of shivering?
Shivering is an involuntary muscular response from the body, triggered by cold. The "shivering" muscles are trying to internally generate heat, to help keep you warm.
How can shivering help you to survive the cold?
Shivering is a reflex triggered in response to hypothermia in which muscles shake in an attempt to generate heat. The energy expended during the shaking becomes heat.
If you shiver on a cold winter night are you shivering from the cold or heat?
I believe your body is responding to the cold by shivering to warm you up.
Why shivering occurs in burns?
It is the body's attempt at throwing off heat.
Why do all animals shiver?
To get warm. By shivering their muscles, heat is generated
Produces quick muscle contractions to make heat?
Shivering is the rapid contraction and relaxation of muscles to generate heat.
What are the the two functions of the muscular system?
Movement and heat production (Through shivering)
What are the mechanisms of heat gain in the human body?
high metabolic rates, shivering,
Who can you tell demonstrates energy being released to heat?
A child shivering in the cold
