Survival Needs Flashcards
Nutrients function
Needed for energy and cell maitanince
Nutrients-carbohydrates
The major energy providing fuel for body
Nutrients -fats
Are essential for building cell structure and are the long term storage of energy
Nutrients-minerals vitamins
Are requird for chemical reactions that go on in the cells and for oxygen transport in blood.
We need body temperature to live
If it drops below 37 c metabolic reactions become slower if the body temperature is to high chemical reactions move to rapidly and the muscular system need tempature to produce heat
Atmospheric pressure
The force around the surface of the body by the weight of air helps us breath
We also need oxygen but I already wrote that with reproductive system
And we also need water but I already wrote that