WorksheetsEndocrine System #1
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
The nervous system sends impulses slowly through the body while the endocrine system releases chemicals that move very quickly through the body to cause a response.
True
False
Chemical messengers released by the endocrine system into the blood are known as
antidepressants
action potentials
neurotransmitters
hormones
A hormone affects only certain tissue cells or organs. What are these known as?
Target cells/target organs
synapses
target neurons/target lobes
Target by my house
What are the chief means of the body's regulation of blood levels of nearly all hormones?
stimulus and response
homeostasis
negative feedback mechanisms
positive feedback mechanisms
What are the 3 categories of stimuli that activate endocrine glands?
excitement, emergency, exercise
endocrine, nervous, humoral
skeletal, digestive, reproductive
hormonal, humoral, neural
In which of the 3 categories of stimuli are hormones released by the pituitary gland, and then those hormones travel to stimulate other endocrine glands to release their hormones into the blood?
Humoral
Hormonal
Neural
Skeletal
Name this endocrine gland.
pineal gland
adrenal gland
ovaries
pituitary gland
Name this endocrine gland.
pituitary gland
thyroid gland
adrenal glands
thymus gland
Name this endocrine gland.
pancreas
adrenal gland
thyroid gland
pituitary gland
Name this endocrine gland.
testes
ovaries
adrenal gland
pineal gland
Name these endocrine glands.
hypothalamus
adrenal glands
thymus glands
parathyroid glands
_____________ glands are endocrine glands that produce hormones that they release directly into the blood or lymph.
Sweat
Sebaceous
Ductless
Ducted
