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Endocrine Vocabulary
Endocrine Organs
Nervous Organs
Nervous Vocabulary
Hodgepodge
100

Healthy/resting/functioning level of your body systems (BALANCED)

What is homeostasis?

100

controls your body's response to stress and fear

What are the adrenal glands?

100
the two main parts of the central nervous system

What are brain and spinal cord?

100
space between neurons that impulses cross
What is synapse?
100

Signals from inside or outside the body that cause a response

What are stimuli?

200

Groups of cells that make hormones

What are glands?

200
Produces insulin to control the amount of glucose in the blood.

What is the pancreas?

200
carries messages from nerves to brain
What is spinal cord?
200

this type of neuron is found in the BRAIN and transmits signals from the sensory neurons to the motor neurons.

What is an interneuron?

200
Gland associated with growth and development of males

What are the testes?

300

Growth hormone is produced by this gland.

What is the pituitary?

300
the ovary produces this hormone which regulates the female reproductive cycle & female traits
What is estrogen?
300

Name at least 2 jobs of the nervous system.

What is to receive info, respond to info and maintain homeostasis?

300
another term for nerve cell
What is neuron?
300

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?

400
something in the environment that causes a reaction
What is a stimulus?
400

controls metabolism, or the release of energy from food molecules

What is the thyroid?

400
coordinates voluntary muscle movement and balance
What is cerebellum?
400
automatic reaction
What is reflex?
400

the reaction to a stimulus

What is response?

500

chemicals released by glands directly into the blood that speed up or slow down cell activity

What is a hormone?

500

Thyroxin is produced by this gland.

What is the thyroid gland?

500
nerve network spread throughout the body
What is the peripheral nervous system?
500
carries messages away from the cell body
What is axon?
500

the function of the endocrine glands

What is to control daily activities and regulate growth and development?