Endocrine Vocabulary
Healthy/resting/functioning level of your body systems (BALANCED)
What is homeostasis?
controls your body's response to stress and fear
What are the adrenal glands?
What are brain and spinal cord?
Signals from inside or outside the body that cause a response
What are stimuli?
Groups of cells that make hormones
What are glands?
What is the pancreas?
this type of neuron is found in the BRAIN and transmits signals from the sensory neurons to the motor neurons.
What is an interneuron?
What are the testes?
Growth hormone is produced by this gland.
What is the pituitary?
Name at least 2 jobs of the nervous system.
What is to receive info, respond to info and maintain homeostasis?
The order in which a signal travels through a neuron. Use these words: dendrite, axon, synapse, cell body
What is dendrite, cell body, axon, synapse?
controls metabolism, or the release of energy from food molecules
What is the thyroid?
the reaction to a stimulus
What is response?
chemicals released by glands directly into the blood that speed up or slow down cell activity
What is a hormone?
Thyroxin is produced by this gland.
What is the thyroid gland?
the function of the endocrine glands
What is to control daily activities and regulate growth and development?