Chapter 32.3, Problem 3CC

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The rate at which the body temperature will return to normal if out of desperation an individual have dunk his head into the cooler to get relief from heat.

Introduction:

In living organisms the metabolic property of a body is always maintained by the property of homeostasis. Thermoregulation is also a process of homeostasis that regulates the changes in the temperature of internal environment. Like, when the temperature of body rises, the body’s skin heat sensors detect this change and help in lowering the body temperature by the process of sweating. Sweating, then cools down the body.

The endotherms are the animals that maintain their internal body temperature by thermoregulation as sudden change in the body temperature could be fatal for an organism. Endotherms get heat from the internal metabolic activities if the outside temperature is low and cool down their bodies by process of sweating if the outside temperature is high.