The Endocrine System

Question 1

Your bodies second communication system

Answer 1

The endocrine system

Question 2

Glands in your endocrine system secrete ______, another form of chemical messenger, which travel through our bloodstream and influence our behaviors and emotions.

Answer 2

Hormones

Question 3

Brain region controlling the pituitary gland . This is also called the master gland.

Answer 3

Hypothalamus

Question 4

Affects metabolism

Answer 4

Thyroid gland

Question 5

Inner part helps trigger the fight or flight response

Answer 5

Adrenal gland’s

Question 6

Secretes male sex hormones

Answer 6

Testis

Question 7

Secretes many different hormones, some of which effect other glands

Answer 7

Pituitary gland

Question 8

Help regulate the level of calcium in the blood

Answer 8

Parathyroid

Question 9

Regulates the level of sugar in the blood

Answer 9

Pancreas

Question 10

Secretes female sex hormones

Answer 10

Ovary

Question 11

The speedy ___ zips messages from eyes to brain to hand in a fraction of a second. _____ trudge a long in the bloodstream, taking several seconds or more to travel from the gland to the target tissue

Answer 11

Nervous system, endocrine system

Question 12

These are also called adrenaline and Noradrenaline

Answer 12

Epinephrine, norepinephrine

Question 13

The endocrine glands control center

Answer 13

Pituitary gland

Question 14

Among the hormones released by ____ is a growth hormone that stimulates physical development. Another is oxytocin, which enables contractions during birthing, milk flow in nursing, an orgasm.

Answer 14

Pituitary

Question 15

Also promote social interactions. It’s pleasant release of the companies couples bonding, feelings of group togetherness, and experiences of social trust.

Answer 15

Oxytocin

Question 16

This feedback system reveals the interplay between the nervous and endocrine system

Answer 16

Brain - pituitary - other glands - hormones - body and brain

Question 17

Responding to signals from the _____, the pituitary releases hormones that trigger other endocrine glands to secrete hormones, which in turn influence our brain and our behavior.

Answer 17

Hypothalamus

Question 18

How are the nervous and endocrine systems alike and how do they differ?

Answer 18

Both of these communication systems produce chemical molecules that act on the bodies receptors to influence our behavior and emotions. The endocrine system, which secretes hormones into the bloodstream, delivers it’s messages much more slowly than the Speed nervous system, and the effects of the endocrine systems messages tend to linger much longer than those of the nervous system

Question 19

Motor and sensory neurons together make up the

Answer 19

Peripheral nervous system

Question 20

Which of the following is an important part of the endocrine system but is not an endocrine gland

Answer 20

Hypothalamus

Question 21

The work groups that neurons cluster into are known as

Answer 21

Neural networks

Question 22

The peripheral nervous system includes the _____ which carry messages from the body to the central nervous system

Answer 22

Sensory neurons

Question 23

People who engage in Extreme sports often do so to feel the rush of the Fight or flight hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine. These hormones are released from the ____

Answer 23

Adrenal gland’s

Question 24

The peripheral Best system that consists of sensory and ____ neurons

Answer 24

Motor

Question 25

Neuro transmitter is to synaptic gap as hormone is to

Answer 25

Blood stream

Question 26

Given the proportional amount of the different types of neurons in the human body, the type of neuron you would be least likely to worry about if you lost 100,000 of them would be

Answer 26

Interneurons