Resources for Life: Assignment
Activity 3.1.1: Resources for Life
Conclusion Questions 1.) In one sentence for each resource water, food, and oxygen explain how this resource helps provide power to the human body.
Water provides power to the human body by breaking down nutrients, flushes out toxins, hydrates cells, provides muscle function, and maintain homeostasis of blood and body temperature by using the muscular, urinary, digestive, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems. Food provides nutrients throughout the entire body, provides energy, and replenishes cells by using the digestive, cardiovascular, muscular, and urinary systems. Air provides oxygen for blood flow, rids the body of carbon dioxide, and involves cellular respiration through the cardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous system. 2.) What factors do you think influence how long your body can last without food, water, or oxygen? The factors that influence how long the body can last without food, water, or oxygen depends on a person’s lifestyle and determines how long they will be able to survive without these resources. These factors also include age, fitness, and health. The weather can also be part of influencing the body’s survival, depending on the temperature, humidity, or rainfall. 3.) How do you think the brain and nervous system assist in times of limited body resources?
The brain and nervous system assist in times of limited body resources by the nervous system communicating to the brain of the necessities that each body system requires. The brain determines what signals to send to each body system.
Conclusion Questions 1.) In one sentence for each resource water, food, and oxygen explain how this resource helps provide power to the human body.
Water provides power to the human body by breaking down nutrients, flushes out toxins, hydrates cells, provides muscle function, and maintain homeostasis of blood and body temperature by using the muscular, urinary, digestive, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems. Food provides nutrients throughout the entire body, provides energy, and replenishes cells by using the digestive, cardiovascular, muscular, and urinary systems. Air provides oxygen for blood flow, rids the body of carbon dioxide, and involves cellular respiration through the cardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous system. 2.) What factors do you think influence how long your body can last without food, water, or oxygen? The factors that influence how long the body can last without food, water, or oxygen depends on a person’s lifestyle and determines how long they will be able to survive without these resources. These factors also include age, fitness, and health. The weather can also be part of influencing the body’s survival, depending on the temperature, humidity, or rainfall. 3.) How do you think the brain and nervous system assist in times of limited body resources?
The brain and nervous system assist in times of limited body resources by the nervous system communicating to the brain of the necessities that each body system requires. The brain determines what signals to send to each body system.