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Endocrine System APK

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are hormones?

a)

your body's chemical messengers

b)

a collection of glands

2.
Gigantism results from abnormal secretion of what hormone?
a)
Estrogen
b)
Androgen
c)

Growth Hormone

d)
Epinephrine
3.
Which of the following anterior pituitary hormones stimulates growth of long bones?
a)
Prolactin
b)
Thyrotropin
c)
Adrenocorticotropic hormone
d)
Human growth hormone
4.

When you get cut, your skin cells release hormones that signal platelets to come and stop the bleeding. Platelets then release more hormones that signal even more platelets to help stop bleeding. The hormone signals continue until the cut is closed. This is an example of what type of feedback?

a)

Positive Feedback Response

b)

Negative Feedback Loop

5.

Cells that have receptors for a particular hormone.

a)

gland cells

b)

neurons

c)

hormones

d)

target cells

6.
Negative Feedback Loops:
a)
amplify processes
b)
prevent small changes from getting larger
c)
are initiated during childbirth
d)
are found only in plants
7.

This part of the brain that links the nervous system and the endocrine system.

a)

Pancreas

b)

Hypothalamus

c)

Pituitary gland

d)

Pineal gland

8.

Which gland secretes insulin?

a)

Pancreas

b)

Ovaries

c)

Pituitary

d)

Thymus

9.

What does melatonin do?

a)

Raises our blood sugar

b)

Regulates our blood pressure

c)

Regulates our metabolism

d)

Regulates our sleep cycle

10.

Insulin causes

a)

a decrease in the concentration of blood glucose

b)

a decrease in the permeability of cell membranes to glucose

c)

an increase in the production of glucose from glycogen

d)

a release of adrenaline into the body

11.

Letter I is pointing to

a)

Testes

b)

Oviducts

c)

Ovaries

d)

Adrenals

12.

Letter J is pointing to

a)

Ovaries

b)

Pineal Gland

c)

Adrenal

d)

Testes

13.

Letter E is pointing to

a)

Thymus

b)

Pineal Gland

c)

Adrenal

d)

Parathyroids

14.

What structure(s) shown in the picture above the kidneys?

a)

Thyroids

b)

Adrenal glands

c)

Testes

d)

Parathyroids

15.

What structure is this?

a)

Pancreas

b)

Thyroid

c)

Parathyroid

d)

Adrenal glands