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Homeostasis
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Explains the factors in homeostasis, and what factors need to be maintained
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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
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Vasodilation is where the blood capillaries closes to the skin dilate in order to maximise heat loss when the body is too hot.
Vasoconstriction
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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
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Cools the skin and creates heat loss.
Radiation of heat from the blood
Hairs lie flat against the skin
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This means that the warm still doesn't get trapped between the hairs and the body gets cooler.
Warming mechanisms
Vasodilation
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The blood vessels don't dilate near to the skin in order to minimise heat loss across the epidermis.
Erect hairs
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They trap warm still air around the body.
Sweat glands don't make sweat
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So that the sweat doesn't cool the body.
Shivering
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Also one of the warming mechanisms in order to warm the body.
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