Homeostasis Lab Report

Based on the prompt above, “You are going to test your body’s ability to maintain homeostasis. You will test this by monitoring a person in your group’s breathing rate, heart rate, and qualitative observations” we devised a hypothesis which states that if a person exercises, his/her heart rate, breathing rate and sweat (qualitative observation) will increase in order for our bodies to maintain homeostasis and control our bodily functions. Based on our experiment we found that in Trial 1 the heart rate before the exercise was at 97 BPM, but then increased to 115 BPM immediately after the exercise and slowly dropped to 87 BPM after 5 minutes of rest and then to 80 BPM after 10 minutes of rest. In Trial 1 the breathing rate started at 26 breaths
When we performed the experiment, we had difficulties measuring the exact heart rate as we would sometimes lose the heartbeat and would have to recount it. It was also difficult to observe the amount of sweat because he was wearing clothes over his body which made observing the data inaccurate due to the clothes preventing us from seeing if there were any other regions with sweat. During the 2 trials, the person also ran at different paces which could affect the results because running at a faster pace can increase your heartbeat and breathing rate as well as sweat. This causes an undeniable inconsistency in our experiment. The condition of the place is also another factor as the temperature was humid and hot which can also tamper with the results and cause more sweat to be produced. If we had an instrument that could measure the exact heart rate as well as have a more stable and consistent environment then our results may differ. With these improvements and corrections we would be able to find more reliable and consistent results in further