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Endocrine System Website Research
Using the website http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/body_basics/endocrine.html#
link found on my website, answer the following questions.
1. List 6 things that the endocrine system helps regulate.
2. The endocrine system controls slower body functions, such as cell growth. While the
nervous system controls things such as _____________________ and
_________________________.
3. Hormones are also known as the bodies ________________ ________________.
4. What is a gland?
5. The pituitary gland is often called the _________ ___________.
6. What are two things does the pituitary gland control in women?
7. What is the main thing the hormones produced in the thyroid control?
8. Why are thyroid hormones important?
9. What does the parathyroid hormone control?
10. The adrenal glands are located on top of the ________________.
11. Where is melatonin produced and what does it control?
12. _____________________ is the most important hormone produced by the testes. List
5 things that this hormone controls in males during puberty.
13. The ovaries in females are produce ___________________ , and secrete the hormone
______________________.
List 4 things that this hormone helps control in a female during puberty.
14. What two hormones does the pancreas produce?
15. Where is a hormone secreted, and where does it go?
16. What can happen if growth hormones are not produced in the right amounts?