Day 1
What is the main job of the endocrine system?
What is sending chemical messages (hormones) through the body?
The gland known as the “master gland.”
What is the pituitary gland?
What causes puberty changes in the body?
What are hormones?
Chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream.
What are hormones?
Which gland is located in the neck?
What is the thyroid gland?
Hormones travel through what part of the body?
What is the bloodstream?
This gland controls metabolism (energy use).
What is the thyroid gland?
The hormone that helps your body grow taller.
What is growth hormone?
Organs that produce hormones.
What are glands?
What hormone is responsible for fight-or-flight?
What is adrenaline?
Hormones work slowly but ________.
What is powerfully?
These glands release adrenaline during stress.
What are the adrenal glands?
The hormone released when you are stressed or scared.
What is adrenaline?
The body system that uses hormones to control functions.
What is the endocrine system?
Puberty causes changes in what two areas of health?
What are physical and emotional health?
Hormones are most like what everyday communication tool?
What are text messages?
This gland controls blood sugar using insulin.
What is the pancreas?
Insulin helps control what in the body?
What is blood sugar?
Hormone that helps the body grow taller and build muscle.
What is growth hormone?
What does the pancreas release to lower blood sugar?
What is insulin?
What is homeostasis?
What is keeping the body balanced and stable?
These glands release puberty hormones.
What are the testes/ovaries?
Why do some students feel hungrier during puberty?
What is the body needs more energy to grow?
Hormone that helps regulate blood sugar.
What is insulin?
Explain why everyone develops at a different pace during puberty.
What is everyone’s hormone levels change at different times?