Hollingsworth_Hannah Test: Skin

Question 0

6 Sebaceous glands produce a substance called…

Answer 0

Sebum

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Question 1

3 How does the skin help regulate body temperature?

Answer 1

By enabling excess heat to escape from the body

NB#22 WKST-Skin

Question 2

24 What helps cool the body?

Answer 2

Evaporation of sweat from the skin’s surface

NB #27 IHM - Skin Questions

Question 3

26 When the body temperature becomes abnormally high, thermoregulatory homeostasis is maintained by…

Answer 3

An increase in sweat gland activity and an increase in blood flow to the skin

NB #27 IHM - Skin Questions

Question 4

27 Catalase is not a/an…

Answer 4

Pigment

NB #28 Lab - Temperature

Question 5

31 The protein that helps protect the skin and underlying tissue is…

Answer 5

Keratin

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Question 6

37 The independent variable in our experiment with the potato was…

Answer 6

Water temperature

NB #28 Lab - Temperature

Question 7

74 Fat is one type of ____________ tissue.

Answer 7

Connective

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Question 8

32 What squeezes water?

Answer 8

Pipette

NB #29 Lab Questions Temperature and Enzymes

Question 9

33 What gets the temperature of something?

Answer 9

Thermometer

NB #29 Lab Questions Temperature and Enzymes

Question 10

35 What measures liquid?

Answer 10

Beaker

NB #29 Lab Questions Temperature and Enzymes

Question 11

76 Describe how skin helps maintain body temperature of a person becomes too warm.

Answer 11

Blood vessels in the skin enlarge to increase the amount of blood that flows through them. This allows heat to move from the body into the outside environment. Sweat glands in the skin produce perspiration. As the perspiration evaporates, it carries heat into the air. The hair on the arms lay flat.

NB #27 IHM - Skin Questions