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    The hypothalamus regulates body temperature by controlling sweat glands and muscle contractions. The integumentary system and sympathetic nervous system also help regulate temperature through sweating and blood vessel dilation. When the body gets too hot, sweat glands produce sweat and blood vessels dilate to bring more blood to the skin surface and dissipate heat through evaporation and conduction.

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    The hypothalamus regulates body temperature by controlling sweat glands and muscle contractions. The integumentary system and sympathetic nervous system also help regulate temperature through sweating and blood vessel dilation. When the body gets too hot, sweat glands produce sweat and blood vessels dilate to bring more blood to the skin surface and dissipate heat through evaporation and conduction.

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    The hypothalamus regulates body temperature by controlling sweat glands and muscle contractions. The integumentary system and sympathetic nervous system also help regulate temperature through sweating and blood vessel dilation. When the body gets too hot, sweat glands produce sweat and blood vessels dilate to bring more blood to the skin surface and dissipate heat through evaporation and conduction.

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    Thermoregulation

    Body temperature is primarily regulated by an area in the brain known as the hypothalamus.
    The hypothalamus sets the body’s temperature and controls it by opening and closing sweat
    glands and contracting muscles.

    The integumentary system helps regulate body temperature through its tight association with
    the sympathetic nervous system, the division of the nervous system involved in our fight-or-
    flight responses. The sympathetic nervous system is continuously monitoring body
    temperature and initiating appropriate motor responses.

    Recall that sudoriferous glands, accessory structures to the skin, secrete sweat to cool the
    body when it becomes warm. Even when the body does not appear to be noticeably sweating,
    approximately 500 mL of sweat (insensible perspiration) are secreted a day. If the body
    becomes excessively warm due to high temperatures, vigorous activity (Figure 1), or a
    combination of the two, sweat glands will be stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system
    to produce large amounts of sweat, as much as 0.7 to 1.5 L per hour for an active person.
    When the sweat evaporates from the skin surface, the body is cooled as body heat is
    dissipated.

    In addition to sweating, arterioles in the dermis dilate so that excess heat carried by the blood
    can dissipate through the skin and into the surrounding environment (Figure 1). This accounts
    for the skin redness that many people experience when exercising.

    From what you studied in chapter 2 explain the two pictures, what happen if you were in very
    hot or very cold environments.
    If it is too hot dermal blood vessels dilate, so blood vessels carry more blood
    to surface and heat can escape.
    If it is too cold, dermal blood vessels constrict to prevents heat from escaping.

    1. What are the two body systems involved in the pictures?

    Circulatory and respiratory


    1. What function is explained in the figures?

    The diffusion and exchange of respiratory gases

    2. Explain the process that happens in the picture.

    The oxygen is diffused from the medium that is high in oxygen to the medium

    that is low in oxygen. The same happens to the carbon dioxide.

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