SKIN AND TEMPERATURE
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Use Google to copy and paste good images into the image boxes.
Type in your answers to the questions in the textboxes also.
PRINT OFF YOUR WORK WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED.
A magnified image of human skin
Cross section
From the outside of our skin, put these layers into the correct order
FATTY TISSUE
EPIDERMIS
What is the function of the fatty layer?
What is the job of the hair erector muscles?
Use Google images to see how deep a tattoo needle needs to
penetrate the skin.
Copy and paste the image here.
DERMIS
What type of radiation from the sun causes skin cancer?
A skin cancer is called a MELANOMA. Use Google images to copy and paste
photographs of what a melanoma (skin cancer) looks like
Melanoma (skin cancer)
Image
Find an image that shows the difference between first, second and third degree burns.
First, second and third degree burns
Image
Can you explain the difference between them?
Use Google to find some images of SKIN GRAFTS.
Skin grafts
Images
Where does the skin usually come from for a skin graft?
Click on the link below to show how the skin changes when we are hot or cold. Drag the
slider form hot to cold and look at the changes
http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/modules/skin/skin3.cfm?coSiteNavigation_allTopic
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Use the words below to complete the paragraph below:
When we are ………….. the sweat glands release sweat onto our skin. This sweat then
……………. to …………. us down. When we are ………..the muscles in the skin
contract to make the ………….in our skin stand……… This gives us ………….
……………. and traps warm air next to our skin.
When we are hot the blood vessels in our skin get ………….. so we lose more heat from
the blood into the air. When we are cold these blood vessels in our skin get ………….
reducing blood flow to our skin so we do not ……….. so much body heat
A change in our body temperature is detected by our ………….. as blood flows through
it. We have to keep our body temperature at a constant ………….. If our body
temperature gets too hot then enzymes in our cells can ………….. and no longer work. If
we get too cold we can suffer from ……………. which can result in unconsciousness
and even death.
GOOSE PIMPLES HOT
37oC
DENATURED
EVAPORATES COLD
HYPOTHERMIA HAIRS NARROWER LOSE WIDER COOL UP BRAIN