San Marin High School Biological Sciences

Homeostasis of Heart Rate

(Mackenzie Rodriguez-Vargas, Julia Ferrua, Holden Martinez, Jacob Sahagun)

Abstract
Exercising causes your heart rate to
increase, then drop back to its
resting rate. Our experiment was
doing two trials of burpees to
calculate heart rate at its peak and
when it’s resting.
Introduction
“Homeostasis is the body’s ability to be
stable in response to changes in
external or internal conditions.” (WOU,
2018) We worked on homeostasis of
heart rate, which involves organs; the
liver, pancreas, kidneys, and brain.
Hormones used to increase heart rate
are “epinephrine and norepinephrine, to
lower heart rate acetylcholine is
used.”(UC Davis, 2022)
Graphs:
Hypothesis: Our hypothesis is that if you exercise,
then heart rate increases and drops back to a stable rate.
Procedure:
To record our resting heart rate (RHR), perform two
different trials of burpees while recording our target
heart rate (THR), and record the time it took to get
back to our RHR.
Analysis/ Conclusion:
Data Table: The data we collected shows that in order to
maintain homeostasis heart rate adjusts by
increasing or decreasing.
Our hypothesis was correct, we proved that
heart rate needs to lower to a stable rate after
it reaches its target point.

Acknowledgements: Thank you, Ms.Mathews and San Marin High School for allowing us to
conduct this experiment.
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www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/how-heart-works#

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