Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Homeostasis
- Homeostasis - the three factors that need to be maintained
- Water content of the body
- Heat
- Sugar concentration
- Negative Feedback: When a change away from the ideal, triggers a reaction designed to bring conditions back to normal
- Temperature
- Light intensity
- Vasodilation
- Vasoconstriction
- Vasoconstriction is where the
- Vasodilation
Anmerkungen:
- Vasodilation is where the blood capillaries closes to the skin dilate in order to maximise heat loss when the body is too hot.
- Vasoconstriction
Anmerkungen:
- Vasoconstriction is where the blood capillaries further away from the skin dilate in order to minimise heat loss and retain thermal energy.
- Cooling mechanisms
- Evaporation of sweat
Anmerkungen:
- Cools the skin and creates heat loss.
- Radiation of heat from the blood
- Hairs lie flat against the skin
Anmerkungen:
- This means that the warm still doesn't get trapped between the hairs and the body gets cooler.
- Warming mechanisms
- Vasodilation
Anmerkungen:
- The blood vessels don't dilate near to the skin in order to minimise heat loss across the epidermis.
- Erect hairs
Anmerkungen:
- They trap warm still air around the body.
- Sweat glands don't make sweat
Anmerkungen:
- So that the sweat doesn't cool the body.
- Shivering
Anmerkungen:
- Also one of the warming mechanisms in order to warm the body.