--- title: Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Many puzzles about the body are solved by joining what we know about the body with what we know about energy, heat, light an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Thinking like a scientist: the body an… # Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics Lesson 40 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/0/) — Many puzzles about the body are solved by joining what we know about the body with what we know about energy, heat, light and sound. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/2/) — That is why you breathe faster and your heart beats faster: to bring oxygen in and carry the waste out faster. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/3/) — Burning food also makes heat, so you get hot. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/4/) — Sweat cools you because water takes heat from the skin when it evaporates. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/5/) — When you are cold, the opposite happens: muscles shiver, and shivering makes heat. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/6/) — A fever is not the illness itself but one of the body's weapons: many germs multiply more slowly when it is warmer, and the body's defences work faster. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/7/) — Light travels about a million times faster than sound, so we see lightning almost at once but hear the thunder later; sound takes about 3 seconds to go one kilometre (about 5 seconds to go one mile), so counting the seconds tells you how far away the storm is. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/8/) — Working muscles need more oxygen and make more carbon dioxide. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/10/) — Muscles make heat when they work. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/11/) — Sweat cools the body because evaporating water takes heat away from the skin. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/12/) — Shivering is the muscles working quickly to make heat. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/13/) — A fever is one of the ways the body fights germs. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/14/) — Light travels much faster than sound. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/15/) — Sound travels about one kilometre in 3 seconds through air. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/16/) — Sound travels about one mile in 5 seconds through air. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/17/) — High on mountains each breath holds less oxygen, so climbers breathe harder. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/18/) — When you are cold, blood vessels in the skin narrow so less heat is lost from the skin. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/19/) — The inner ear has fluid that tells the brain how the head is moving; after spinning, the fluid keeps moving and you feel dizzy. - ← previous: [First aid and safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/39-first-aid-and-safety/) - next →: [Maps, plans and the compass](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)