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Hair follicles. Tiny muscles around them tighten, causing bumps. But the real reason you get goose bumps is that they make your hair stand up straight. This is important, not to humans, anymore, but to animals for two reasons:
1. The standing-up hair is more effective as an insulator, and helps keep the animal warm. This is why goose bumps occur when it is cold.
2. To an enemy, the standing-up hair makes the animal look bigger, and may cause another animal to not attack.
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What is another name for goose bumps that starts with a g and does not include the word goose?
Gänsehaut= Goose Skin in German.
What is responsible for goose bumps?
The erector pilaris muscles.
What causes red bumps on your head?
When a goose lays an egg on your head, goose egg, jk lol
What is an arrector pili?
It raises the hairs to give you goose bumps but it gives you goose bumps because you're cold but also it raises your hair when you're frightened
Do goose bumps make your hair grow?
it does not because goosebumps is just a nerve reaction it probably just makes you hair stand up . ^-^
What cause goose bumps?
Arrector pili muscle- Minute, involuntary muscle in the base of the hair follicle that causes "goose bumps".Hope this helps you
What causes goose like bumps on the arm?
they are goose Bumps. :)
Describe the structure of a hair. What causes goose bumps?
The hair has two main structures. This is the hair follicle and the hair shaft. Goose bumps happen when the hair follicle raises making your hair stand up.
Does the pancreas cause goose bumps?
No, it regulates insulin in your body. Your skin, an organ not a muscle, helps control temperature in the body and goose bumps is just one way of warming up.
Which muscles attached to the hair follicles cause goose bumps?
arector pili muscle
Use goose bumps in a sentence?
When the wind picked up it gave me goose bumps.
How do people get goose bumps?
You get goose bumps by becoming cold, Its a reaction to keep you warm.
Why are goose bumbs called so?
The bumps on our skin are called goose bumps as they resemble the bumpy skin of a goose after it has been plucked.
What is a goose bump?
Goose bumps are the tiny bumps you get all over your body when you get the chills, also sometimes referred to as goose pimples.
What is the British English word for goose bumps?
Goose flesh or goose pimples
What is pilomotor?
Goose bumps
What is horripilation?
goose bumps
