The canal spanned 350 miles between the Great Lakes and the Hudson River and was an immediate success. Between its completion and its closure in 1882, it returned over $121 million in revenues on an original cost of $7 million. Its success led to the great Canal Age.
An Integrated Temperature Regulatory Center. The whole brain helps regulate body temperature, but the main thermoregulatory center is the hypothalamus (located midline in the brain behind the eyes), which possesses two specialized sections: a heat-losing center and a heat-promoting center.
The skin is part of which body system? Is the skin a part of the circulatory system? No. The skin is its own organ, though one of its functions is to help regulate body temperature by providing a way for the circulatory system to transfer excess heat away frâ¦om the body. (It also cools the body by producing sweat, which in turn reduces the body's temperature as it evaporates.)