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Endocrine system
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What is the Endocrine system?
a. group of cells that produces and secretes
chemicals
2.
What are glands?
b. Chemicals that act on the nervous system and
reduce feelings of pain
3.
Which gland is the control center for all
regulatory activites of the body.
c. Testosterone
4.
What are Pituitary glands
d. Helps regulate calcium in the bones
e. Insulin & glucagon
5.
Which gland produces hormones that can be
influences by factors such as emotions and
changes in the seasons
6.
What are endorphins?
f. Estrogen
g. Adrenaline
7.
Which gland produces hormones that control
the rate at which cells burn fuels from food to
produce energy
h. Pineal Gland
8.
Which gland produces a hormone that helps
regulate when you sleep at night and when you
wake in the morning?
9.
What does calcitonin do?
i.
Pituitary gland
10.
What hormone doesthe reproductive glands
produce for males?
j.
Pancreas
11.
What hormone does the reproductive glands
produce for females?
k. Master gland, makes hormones that control
several other endocrine glands
12.
What produces digestive enzymes?
l.
13.
The Adrenal gland produces what hormone?
m. Thyroid
14.
What does the hormone adrenaline do?
n. Increases blood pressure and heart rate when
the body experiences stress
15.
What 2 hormones does the pancreas produce?
o. Hypothalamus
16.
What do insulin & glucagon do?
p. Condition in which levels of thyroid hormones in
the blood are very high
17.
What is Hyperthroidism?
q. Condition in which levels of thyroid hormones in
the blood are very low
1.
r.
18.
What is Hypothyrodidism?
collection of glands that produce hormones
maintain a steady level of glucose in the blood
and keep the body supplied with fuel to produce
and maintain stores of energy