Protective Roles
This is the main job of the skin: acting as a shield to keep the body safe.
What is protection?
The three main components that make up the integumentary system.
What are skin, hair, and nails?
The thin, outermost layer of the skin that is constantly shedding dead cells.
What is the epidermis?
The protein responsible for giving skin and hair its color.
What is melanin?
A general term for any disease-causing microorganism, which the skin works hard to keep out.
What is a pathogen?
Two main threats the skin protects the body from, besides radiation and water loss.
What are pathogens and water loss?
This component of the integumentary system is the largest organ of the body.
What is the skin?
The middle layer of skin, which contains blood vessels, nerves, and glands.
What is the dermis?
This protein provides strength and flexibility to the dermis, often compared to tiny ropes.
What is collagen?
The scientific term for the oil gland that produces sebum to keep the skin and hair soft and waterproof
What is the sebaceous gland?
This sense, provided by receptors in the skin, allows you to feel textures, temperature, and pain.
What is touch?
This component of the system helps to insulate the body, guard the scalp from the sun, and filter air in the nose.
What is hair?
The deepest layer, located beneath the dermis, that contains a large amount of fat for insulation and energy storage.
What is the subcutaneous layer?
This tough, fibrous protein is the main component of hair and nails, and makes up the outer layer of the skin.
What is keratin?
These small structures in the dermis bring necessary nutrients and oxygen to the skin cells.
What are blood vessels or capillaries?
The specific function of the top layer of skin that prevents the body from drying out in a dry environment.
What is preventing water loss?
This component is primarily made of the tough protein keratin and protects the ends of your fingers and toes.
What are nails?
These structures are found throughout the skin, especially in the dermis, and are responsible for sensing heat, cold, and pressure.
What are nerve receptors or sensory receptors?
This outermost layer of the skin is where you can find the protein melanin being produced.
What is the epidermis?
The tiny muscle that attaches to a hair follicle and causes goosebumps when it contracts.
What is the arrector pili muscle?
The process where the skin works to control the body's internal temperature, often by sweating.
What is thermoregulation or cooling?
The body system, including skin, hair, and nails, that acts as a physical barrier.
What is the integumentary system?
The main function of the epidermis, which is to produce new skin cells and provide the body's primary waterproof barrier.
What is protection or waterproofing?
The specific way melanin protects the body from radiation, which is by absorbing and scattering the light.
What is absorbing light?
A visual representation that helps a student understand the location of the dermis, epidermis, and subcutaneous layer.
What is a chart or diagram?