Integumentary System

Question 1

What is the outer layer of the skin?

Answer 1

epidermis

Question 2

What is the middle layer of the skin and also the thickest and what does it contain?

Answer 2

dermis and it contains hair follicles, apocrine and eccrine glands, sebaceous glands , capillaries and nerve endings

Question 3

What is the lowest layer of the skin and what does it contain?

Answer 3

hypodermis and it contains blood vessels and nerves

Question 4

What excretes water, sodium, chloride, and magnesium?

Answer 4

sudoriferous glands

Question 5

When the body gets to warm what is produce and how ?

Answer 5

sweat is produced by sudoriferous gland

Question 6

What dilates when the body gets warm and why?

Answer 6

blood vessels dilate so more blood can be carried to the skin surface and is cooled and returns to deeper tissue at a cooler temp

Question 7

If the body gets to cold what can happen?

Answer 7

blood vessels will constrict