Question. Perspiration does what to the skin when it is evaporated from the skin onto the air?
Options:
- (A) reduced heat
- (B) cleans it
- (C) heats it
- (D) temperature
- (E) cools it
- (F) heat or cold
- (G) air cools
- (H) turns it to steam
Answer. (E)
What step-by-step reasoning justifies that answer?
Reasoning: Sweat wets the skin, and when it evaporates, it cools the body. Diaphoresis is a fancy medical term for perspiration or sweating. Perspiration wets the skin and when it evaporates it cools the body.