🔍 Key Concepts

• Hypothermia stages and typical symptoms at each stage • How the body naturally responds to cold stress to protect vital organs • The difference between early and late signs of hypothermia

💭 Think About

• When a person first becomes too cold, what does the body do automatically to try to protect the core temperature? • Is shivering a sign that body systems are shutting down, or that they are still actively responding? • Which options describe a normal, automatic protective response versus a life‑threatening failure of that response?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choice describes an active body response rather than a passive condition. • Eliminate any option that contradicts basic physiology of heat production and blood vessel behavior in the cold. • Ask which answer best matches an early/compensating sign of hypothermia, not the final stage.