Endocrine System

What is the Endocrine System?

• Body system that helps blood circulate the body
• Body system that helps the body using hormones
• Body system that helps support and movement 
• Body system that helps us breath 

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What are some major organs of the Endocrine system?

• Heart and blood vessels
• Mouth, Lungs, Bronchi, and Trachea
• Esophagus, Stomach, Small and large instestine
• Pineal gland, Thyroid gland, Adrenal gland, and pancreas

What are some diseases for the Endocrine system?

• Thyroid Cancer and Type 1 diabetes
• Influenza and asthma 
• Kidney disease
• Gallstones

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What is the function of the pineal??

• Secrete hormones that makes us the modern edgy teen
• Regulates when you go to sleep & wake up
• Helps the chillen (Children) grow

Insulin is a hormone produced by the ___________________.

• liver

• bladder

• pancreas

• heart

A disease in which the body's ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin is impaired, causing an increase in blood sugar

• diabetes

• ulcers

• asthma

• bronchitis

What is the function of the endocrine system?

• to filter and eliminate the waste from the blood

• to secrete hormones into the bloodstream to regulate body activities

• to provide structure and support for the body

• to defend the body against pathogens

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

An illness from the underproduction of a hormone produced in the thyroid which decreases metabolism; you gain weight.

• diabetes 1

• hyperthyroidism

• hypothyroidism

• diabetes 2

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The endocrine system relies on the _________ of the circulatory system to deliver its' message to target cells in the body

• insulin
• axon
• blood
• terminal branches

A group of cells that produces and secretes, or gives off, chemicals.

• Glands
• Hormones
• Cells
• thymus