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Unit 10: Endocrine Questions:
Day 2 Endocrine system
Glue this into your spiral and please answer each thoroughly and NEATLY in Complete Sentences!!!
1. Suppose a girl ate too many sweets for breakfast and forgot to bring her lunch to school. How will the hormones insulin and
glucagon from her pancreas help her body with an increase and then decrease of glucose?
2. Name two different events that may happen if a person’s nervous system and endocrine system fail to maintain homeostasis?
3. How do the nervous and endocrine systems respond to an increase in environmental temperatures to achieve homeostasis?
4. What conditions might arise if the pituitary gland is not producing appropriate amounts of growth hormone (GH)?
5. Why is there a noticeable swelling in the front part of the neck of a person who has goiter?
6. How can you tell if the thyroid or if the parathyroid glands are malfunctioning?
7. Which gland of the endocrine system controls the stimulation or inhibition of all other hormone producing glands?
8. What might happen to a person who is born without a Thymus gland?
9. Explain what is happening if a person has a sudden burst of energy, and has an extraordinary ability to lift heavy objects especially
during an emergency situation?
10. In what way do the nervous system and endocrine system differ in the way they communicate messages throughout the body?
Unit 10: Endocrine Questions:
Day 2 Endocrine system
Glue this into your spiral and please answer each thoroughly and NEATLY in Complete Sentences!!!
1. Suppose a girl ate too many sweets for breakfast and forgot to bring her lunch to school. How will the hormones insulin and
glucagon from her pancreas help her body with an increase and then decrease of glucose?
2. Name two different events that may happen if a person’s nervous system and endocrine system fail to maintain homeostasis?
3. How do the nervous and endocrine systems respond to an increase in environmental temperatures to achieve homeostasis?
4. What conditions might arise if the pituitary gland is not producing appropriate amounts of growth hormone (GH)?
5. Why is there a noticeable swelling in the front part of the neck of a person who has goiter?
6. How can you tell if the thyroid or if the parathyroid glands are malfunctioning?
7. Which gland of the endocrine system controls the stimulation or inhibition of all other hormone producing glands?
8. What might happen to a person who is born without a Thymus gland?
9. Explain what is happening if a person has a sudden burst of energy, and has an extraordinary ability to lift heavy objects especially
during an emergency situation?
10. In what way do the nervous system and endocrine system differ in the way they communicate messages throughout the body?
Unit 10: Endocrine Questions:
Day 2 Endocrine system
Glue this into your spiral and please answer each thoroughly and NEATLY in Complete Sentences!!!
1. Suppose a girl ate too many sweets for breakfast and forgot to bring her lunch to school. How will the hormones insulin and
glucagon from her pancreas help her body with an increase and then decrease of glucose?
2. Name two different events that may happen if a person’s nervous system and endocrine system fail to maintain homeostasis?
3. How do the nervous and endocrine systems respond to an increase in environmental temperatures to achieve homeostasis?
4. What conditions might arise if the pituitary gland is not producing appropriate amounts of growth hormone (GH)?
5. Why is there a noticeable swelling in the front part of the neck of a person who has goiter?
6. How can you tell if the thyroid or if the parathyroid glands are malfunctioning?
7. Which gland of the endocrine system controls the stimulation or inhibition of all other hormone producing glands?
8. What might happen to a person who is born without a Thymus gland?
9. Explain what is happening if a person has a sudden burst of energy, and has an extraordinary ability to lift heavy objects especially
during an emergency situation?
10. In what way do the nervous system and endocrine system differ in the way they communicate messages throughout the body?