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 glands?

• Another word for hormones.
• Organ where oxygen can pass through.
• Cells that removes materials from the blood, concentrates or alters them.
• A type of disease.

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

When the amount of a particular hormone in the blood reaches a certain level, the endocrine system sends signals that stop the release of that hormone in a process called__________________.

• target feedback

• endocrine feedback

• positive feedback

• negative feedback

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Type of feedback where higher levels of a hormone turn on the production for more of that hormone

• Positive

• Negative

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Controls long term changes such as growth

• limbic system

• endocrine system

• nervous system

• temporal lobe

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Insulin is a hormone produced by the ___________________.

• liver

• bladder

• pancreas

• heart

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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