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Describe the role that your skin plays in regulating body temperature?
Your skin helps regulate your body temperature by keeping you cool.
What kind of tissue is designed to regulate temperature secrete lubricants and protect the body from harmful substances?
The epidermis (outer layer of skin) and the dermis (Inner layer of skin) are the tissue.
How can blood keep your body temperature stable?
Blood is a liquid that acts as an insulator of heat. When more blood is rushed to an area of the body, some of the heat escapes and is transmitted to that site which helps to regulate temperature.
Which part of the skin keeps in heat?
The integumentary system regulates temperature inside the body by insulation, trapping heat inside the body and making it difficult to escape. This is one of the reasons why the human body is normally warm to the touch.
What major organs help facilitate metabolism and regulate temperature?
The skin. The skin is the largest singe organ in the body, it regulates temperature by keeping the body in the very narrow operating rage of the metabolic system. The skin uses nerve endings to regulate temperature by sending and pulling blood to and from the surface of the skin in the dermis under the epidermis, during hot temperates the skins also unitizes sweat glands to produce moisture for cooling.
One function of the skin is to?
Regulate body temperature.
Does hypothalamus regulate body temperature?
That and the skin, so I have been told.
What protects your body from harm and helps regulate body temperature?
integumentary system
How the skin helps regulate body temperature?
By sweating when it is hot and shivering when it is cold.
Describe the role that your skin plays in regulating body temperature?
Your skin helps regulate your body temperature by keeping you cool.
What two systems help the skin regulate body temperature?
shivers, sweat, and raising of the hair on the skin.
How does your skin regulate body temperature?
The skin regulates body temperature by sweating, synthesizes important chemicals, and functions as a sophisticated sense organ. An example is when the body is over-heating the pores open up and allow the body to prespire.
Explain the various ways in which the skin can serve to regulate an organism's temperature?
The various ways in which skin can serve to regulate an organism's temperature would be through sweat and insulation. The skin excretes sweat on order to cool down the body and the skin also contains body heat by insulation.
A gland located in the dermis of the skin that helps to regulate body temperature is the?
Sweat glands
Name the location in the body of temperature receptors that monitor the external temperature?
The body contains temperature receptors which monitor external temperature in order to regulate body temperature. These special temperature receptors are located in the skin.
What is the job of a penguins feather?
to insulate and help them regulate their temperature. it stops their body temperature from dropping as it keeps the water off their skin
How does skin maintain homeostasis?
The skin regulates body temperature. (Sweating, shivering,...)
