Endocrine System and Disorders

Which of these functions are the main function of the endocrine system?

• To ensure that we take in oxygen through the lungs

• To make hormones that control growth and development

• To control balance, movement, and coordination

• To protect the body from disease caused by pathogens

What is the function of the thymus?

• Help the immune system by training and developing cells

• Danger the inmune system

• Links nervous system to endocrine system

• Regulates blood sugar

Hormones cause specific effects by ______.

• Flooding the entire body

• Targeting specific parts of the brain

• Targeting specific groups of cells in the body

• Spreading through the nervous system

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

When you eat a burger , your body produces insulin to control blood sugar . What type of feedback is that

• Positive feedback

• Negative Feedback

• None

• Both

This gland is located between the lungs behind the sternum and secretes thymosin that helps mature WBC's in our bodies when we are children. 

• thyroid
• parathyroid
• thymus
• brain stem

This structure releases what hormones?

• insulin and glucagon

• calcitonin and estrogen

• Parathyroid hormone and antidiuretic hormone

• epinephrine and testosterone

Match the following hormones to the function it performs.

• Stimulates the production of cortisol, stress control hormone

• Calcitonin

• Stimulates the production of sex hormones in people

• Testosterone

• Spermatogenesis and develops male genetalia/features

• Luteinizing

  Hormone

• Stimulates uterine contractions during labor and bonding after sex

• ACTH

• Regulates calcium levels in the blood

• Oxytocin

If you have diabetes, the gland that helps maintain your sugar levels in equilibrium is your

• gut

• pancreas

• liver

Hormones from this gland control other endocrine glands

• Pituitary

• Thymus

• Hypothalamus

• Pancreas