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Your Body's Thermostat

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Your Body's Thermostat

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	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.28

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hypothalamus, thermostat, fever, kill, body, doing, sweat, sign, skin, part, heat, even, close, temperature, wall, probably

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Your Body's Thermostat By Cindy Grigg

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¹     How do your parents keep your house warm or cool? At home, there's probably a thermostat on the wall. Your parents set the temperature they want the house to be. The thermostat tells the heat or air conditioning when to come on and turn off again. The thermostat's job is to keep your house an even temperature. Did you know your body has a kind of thermostat, too?
 
²     Your body has a "thermostat" that controls your body's temperature. It is part of your brain called the hypothalamus (say: high-po-THA-luh-mus). The hypothalamus controls your body's responses to outside temperature. When you get hot, you sweat. Sweating cools your body. When you get cold, you get goose bumps on your skin. If it's really cold, you shiver. Both these responses help warm your body. .....
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