HEALTH Use Of Thermometers

Question 0

Give the variable for liquid in glass

Answer 0

Volume of liquid

Question 1

What do all thermometers require?

Answer 1

A measurable physical property that changes with temperature

Question 2

Give the variable for digital

Answer 2

Resistance of thermistor

Question 3

Give the variable for crystal strip

Answer 3

Crystals have different melting points

Question 4

Give the variable for thermocouple

Answer 4

Voltage produced

Question 5

Explain how a liquid in glass thermometer works.

Answer 5

The liquid inside the glass expands when it is heated. Is volume increases and it rises up the tube. The liquid expands more than the glass itself.

Question 6

Give advantages of clinical thermometer

Answer 6

Measures over a smaller range so more accurate
Keeps highest ready for ease of use
Glass tube shaped like lens so magnifies

Question 7

How does a liquid in glass thermometer keep its reading?

Answer 7

Constriction breaks thread when liquid cools and contracts.

Question 8

Describe how to use liquid in glass thermometer

Answer 8

Shake to reset, place bulb of thermometer in mouth, wait, read temperature from scale

Question 9

What is body temperature?

Answer 9

37

Question 10

What temperature would fever occur?

Answer 10

38+

Question 11

What temperature would hypothermia occur?

Answer 11

34-

Question 12

At what temperature would death occur?

Answer 12

43 to 45 or 26-28

Question 13

At what temperature would death occur?

Answer 13

43 to 45 or 26-28