Assignment task: Answer the following questions.
Q1. What are the major components of sweat? Describe the tonicity of this fluid.
Q2. What are the major roles of sweat?
Q3. Describe Evaporative Cooling and how sweat cools the body? What is hyperhidrosis?
Q4. What causes flushing (turning red) of the skin? What is the function of this?
Q5. How are sweating and flushing of the skin related to homeostasis?
Q6. If the palms have about 3,000 sweat glands per square inch, then how many sweat glands per square cm is this?
Q7. Describe how our sweat gland activity is controlled. [Hint: It and fight or flight!]
Q8. What fluid does sweat originally come from? That is, what is it's source?