Question

Your body temperature begins to rise during strenuous exercise in hot weather. Specialized nerve cells on the skin detect an increase in temperature; your brain detects an increase in blood temperature. You begin to sweat and as the sweat evaporates, more latent heat of vaporization is removed from your body and you cool down. In this case, your skin and brain acts as ________________ in maintaining homeostasis.

Answer 1

Answer:

receptors

Explanation:

In this case, your skin and brain act as receptors in maintaining homeostasis. These receptors are monitors in different parts of an organism's body that are there to detect specific changes that occur and activate very specific responses in order to counteract these changes and maintain a very stable system. This is exactly, what your skin and brain are doing in this scenario, they detect the change in temperature and counteract its effects through sweat which ultimately causes the opposite effect and maintains equilibrium in your body.