ds, can increase and decrease the solar heating of their bodies by darkening and lightening, respectively. SUMMARY Heat Transfer between Animals and Their Environments • In addition to making heat metabolically, animals exchange heat with their environments by conduc- tion, convection, evaporation, and thermal radiation. An animal's body temperature depends on heat gains and losses; it is constant only if the sum total of gains equals the sum total of losses. • Conduction and convection have in common the prop- erty that when heat moves through a material substance by either mechanism, the atoms and molecules of the substance participate in the transfer of heat. Conduc- tion occurs when a material substance is macroscopically motionless. Convection, which is much faster, is heat transfer brought about by flow of a material substance (e.g., by wind). eli of • Evaporation is a potentially potent mechanism for heat transfer because the change of state of water from a liq- uid to a gas absorbs a great deal of heat per gram of wa- ter. The heat is absorbed from the surface where evapo- ration occurs and is carried away with the water vapor. • Thermal-radiation heat transfer occurs by means of beams of radiant energy that all objects emit and that travel between objects at the speed of light. Because of thermal-radiation heat transfer, objects can exchange heat at a distance. Most instances of such heat transfer ur at invisible infrared wavelengths, in the bi ever, do not n "air" tempera evaporation o away from air land basks in er than the air the definitior body temper with the sum A commo therms "mus and thus be whale shark- kg and are t tion. As larg body of wat loses heat as are at essen In nonsc mals are oft the touch u have high For examp poikilother exceed hum suitable ge Poikilot over the The natura place to p the tempe than that
ds, can increase and decrease the solar heating of their bodies by darkening and lightening, respectively. SUMMARY Heat Transfer between Animals and Their Environments • In addition to making heat metabolically, animals exchange heat with their environments by conduc- tion, convection, evaporation, and thermal radiation. An animal's body temperature depends on heat gains and losses; it is constant only if the sum total of gains equals the sum total of losses. • Conduction and convection have in common the prop- erty that when heat moves through a material substance by either mechanism, the atoms and molecules of the substance participate in the transfer of heat. Conduc- tion occurs when a material substance is macroscopically motionless. Convection, which is much faster, is heat transfer brought about by flow of a material substance (e.g., by wind). eli of • Evaporation is a potentially potent mechanism for heat transfer because the change of state of water from a liq- uid to a gas absorbs a great deal of heat per gram of wa- ter. The heat is absorbed from the surface where evapo- ration occurs and is carried away with the water vapor. • Thermal-radiation heat transfer occurs by means of beams of radiant energy that all objects emit and that travel between objects at the speed of light. Because of thermal-radiation heat transfer, objects can exchange heat at a distance. Most instances of such heat transfer ur at invisible infrared wavelengths, in the bi ever, do not n "air" tempera evaporation o away from air land basks in er than the air the definitior body temper with the sum A commo therms "mus and thus be whale shark- kg and are t tion. As larg body of wat loses heat as are at essen In nonsc mals are oft the touch u have high For examp poikilother exceed hum suitable ge Poikilot over the The natura place to p the tempe than that
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