Hormonal Coordination

Question 1

What are the endocrine (hormonal) glands?

Answer 1

Pituitary 
Thyroid
Pancreas
Adrenal
Ovaries
Testes

Question 2

What is the role of the hormones in the pituitary gland?

Answer 2

1 controls growth in children
2 stimulates thyroid gland to make thyroxine to control metabolic rate
3 in women- stimulates ovaries to produce and release eggs and make female sex hormone -> oestrogen
4 in men - stimulates testes to make sperm and the male sex hormone -> testosterone
5 pituitary gland is master gland secreting several hormones and some of these hormones stimulate release of hormones from other glands

Question 3

What Is the role of hormones in the thyroid gland

Answer 3

Controls metabolic rate of the body

Question 4

What is the role of the hormone in the pancreas

Answer 4

Controls the levels of glucose in the blood

Question 5

What is the role of the hormone in the adrenal gland

Answer 5

Prepares the body for stressful situations eg fight or flight responses

Question 6

What is the role of the hormones in the ovaries

Answer 6

Controls development of female secondary sexual characteristics and is involved in the menstrual cycle

Question 7

What is the role of the hormones in the testes

Answer 7

Controls development of male secondary sexual characteristics and is involved in the production of sperm

Question 8

What is a hormone

Answer 8

Chemicals released by endocrine system glands into the blood stream

Question 9

What is the difference between hormones and nerves

Answer 9

Hormones - slower acting, chemical, longer lasting, in blood stream
Nerves - fast acting, electrical, shorter lasting, in neurones - motor, sensory, relay

Question 10

What is the endocrine system

Answer 10

Glands that secrete hormones into the blood stream

Question 11

Why is the pituitary gland called the master gland

Answer 11

It coordinates many of the other endocrine glands.

Pituitary secretes a variety of different hormones into the blood in response to changes body conditions