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the arector pili muscle.

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Q: What causes goosebumps in the skin?
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What causes hair on skin to stand up?

If you have goosebumps


What you get on your skin when you are scared?

Goosebumps.


What you get on your skin when your scared?

Goosebumps.


What is A four letter word for where you get goosebumps?

skin


How does skin react to goosebumps to keep warm?

truytutyuytuyttr


What is a goosebump?

goosebumps are when you have lattes of little bumps on your skin


When you shiver what happens to your blood vessels near to your skin?

you get goosebumps.


What layer of skin makes goosebumps?

we all get goosebumps when it is cold because your skin sqeezes together to keep heat inside your body


Why don't goosebumps form on the wrist?

Goosebumps can only form where you have hair follicles. The bump is formed by the muscle causing the hair to stand up straight when you are cold or scared or whatever else causes you to get goosebumps. But on hairless areas of your body, you will not get goosebumps.


What causes bumps?

It depends on what kind-- Goosebumps, well, is when your either cold or afraid.


How do you get bumps?

There are many many many ways to get goosebumps, one of the more common ways is when you are cold. Goosebumps are really tiny muscles in your skin contracting, making the skin bunch up that surround the hair, which result in goosebumps. The body preserves heat this way, which is why the hairs stand up, thus reducing heat loss. :)


Why do we get goosebumps on our skin when we get scared?

Adrenaline stimulates tiny muscles to pull the roots of our hairs, thereby making them stand up on our skin.