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Endocrine system Matching!
Write the letter of the correct match next to each problem.
_____ 1. What is the Endocrine system?
a. Testosterone
_____ 2. What are glands?
b. group of cells that produces and secretes
chemicals
_____ 3. Which gland is the control center for all
regulatory activites of the body.
c. Condition in which levels of thyroid
hormones in the blood are very low
_____ 4. What are Pititary glands
d. Pituitary gland
_____ 5. Which gland produces hormones that can be
influences by factors such as emotions and changes
in the seasons
e. Condition in which levels of thyroid
hormones in the blood are very high
_____ 6. What are endorphins?
f. Chemicals that act on the nervous system
and reduce feelings of pain
_____ 7. Which gland produces hormones that control
the rate at which cells burn fuels from food to
produce energy
g. Increases blood pressure and heart
rate when the body experiences stress
_____ 8. 4 tiny glands that function together that release
hormones that regulates the level of calcium are
h. Adrenal Medulla
_____ 9. What does calcitonin do?
i. Parathyroid
_____ 10. What is the outer part of the Adrenal gland?
j. Adrenal Cortex
_____ 11. What is the inner part of the Adrenal gland?
k. Helps regulate when you sleep at night and
when you wake in the morning
_____ 12. Adrenal cortex produces what hormone?
l. Master gland, makes hormones that
control several other endocrine glands
_____ 13. Adrenal Medulla produces what hormone?
m. Helps regulate calcium in the bones
_____ 14. What does the hormone adrenaline do?
n. Thyroid
_____ 15. Which gland secretes melatonin?
o. Insulin & glucagon
_____ 16. What does melatonin do?
p. Pineal body
_____ 17. What hormone does reproductive glands
produce for males?
q. Estrogen
_____ 18. What hormone does reproductive glands
produce for females?
r. Hypothalamus
_____ 19. What produces digestive enzymes?
s. maintain a steady level of glucose in the
blood and keep the body supplied with fuel to
produce and maintain stores of energy
_____ 20. What 2 hormones does the pancreas produce?
t. Corticosteroids
_____ 21. What do insulin & glucagon do?
u. Pancrease
_____ 22. What is Hyperthroidism?
v. collection of glands that produce hormones
_____ 23. What is Hypothyrodidism?
w. Adrenaline