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 

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

Insulin is a hormone produced by the ___________________.

• liver

• bladder

• pancreas

• heart

The __________ system uses hormones to communicate with other systems.

• Endocrine

• Muscular

• Skeletal

• Nervous

What is the main function of the pituitary gland?

• receives information from the hypothalamus, and then sends out messages to the rest of the endocrine system's glands

• Produces insulin

• Produces hormones to control how fast your body burns energy

Your ______________ gland is responsible for how fast your body burns energy.

• Pituitary gland

• pancreas

• Thyroid gland

The _____________ Glands are responsible for regulating ____________ in your body. If this doesn't work properly, your nerves and muscles can't function properly.

• thyroid and blood

• parathyroid and calcium

• pancreas and insulin

Your response to stress, by the release of adrenaline, gives your body a burst of energy. The gland responsible is the __________________.

• Parathyroid glands

• Adrenal gland

• Pancreas

The ______________ gland is responsible for producing T-Cells that help fight off infection in your blood.

• Hypothalamus

• thyroid

• Thymus