Endocrine System

Question 1

What are glands?

Answer 1

Glands are organs that release small chemicals called hormones

Question 2

Where are the hormones released?

Answer 2

Into the blood stream

Question 3

True or false?
A hormone can only stimulate specific types of cells?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Different glands release different hormones true or false

Answer 4

True.

Question 5

How does the endocrine system work?

Answer 5

Glands are organs that release small chemicals called hormones
These chemicals are normally released into the blood stream allowing them to travel around the body
They can bind to specific cells that have the correct receptors
This will bring about some change within the cell

Question 6

How does the endocrine system work?

Answer 6

Glands are organs that release small chemicals called hormones
These chemicals are normally released into the blood stream allowing them to travel around the body
They can bind to specific cells that have the correct receptors
This will bring about some change within the cell

Question 7

True or false hormones can only stimulate a specific cell

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What does the pituitary gland do

Answer 8

Releases multiple hormones
It is often referred to as the master gland
The hormonesbit releases control what other glands do

Question 9

Which gland releases thyroxine?

Answer 9

Thyroid gland

Question 10

What is the role of thyroxine?

Answer 10

It regulates metabolism

Question 11

What happens if your thyroxine levels are too low?

Answer 11

The pituitary gland will release more thyristor stimulating hormone tsh

Question 12

What is the role of adrenaline?

Answer 12

Stimulates a fight or flight response

Question 13

Where is adrenaline released from

Answer 13

The adrenal glands

Question 14

Which organ is insulin released from?

Answer 14

Pancreas

Question 15

Which organs is testosterone released from?

Answer 15

The testes

Question 16

Do the effects of the endocrine system or nervous system last longer?

Answer 16

Endocrine as the hormones stay in the blood longer whereas electrical impulses from the nervous system last a split second

Question 17

What happens if blood glucose concentrations fall too low?

Answer 17

There won’t be enough glucose for tissue cells to respire

Question 18

After eating does our blood glucose concentration increase or decrease?

Answer 18

Increase

Question 19

Which organ detects changes in blood glucose concentration

Answer 19

Pancreas

Question 20

Which hormone decreases blood glucose levels?

Answer 20

Insuilin

Question 21

What are the two main organs that insulin stimulates to absorb glucose from the blood?

Answer 21

Muscle and liver

Question 22

When glucose is absorber by the liver for long term storage what molecule is it converted to?

Answer 22

Glycogen

Question 23

How does glucagon work?

Answer 23

When blood glucose levels fall to low
It’s detected by the pancreas
This causes the pancreas to release the hormone glucagon into the blood stream
This hormone then travels around the body and binds mainly to cells in the liver
This stimulates those liver cells to break down their stored glycogen into glucose

Question 24

What happens when blood glucose levels get too high?

Answer 24

Insulin is released from the pancreas into the blood stream. This causes organs such as the liver to absorb glucose from the blood and covert it into glucogen

Question 25

What is diabetes?

Answer 25

When the body can't regulate the levels of glucose properly.

Question 26

What is glucose a type of?

Answer 26

Carbohydrate

Question 27

Which type of diabetes commonly occurs in younger people such as children and teenagers

Answer 27

Type 1

Question 28

What is the issue for type 1 diabetes?

Answer 28

The pancreas doesn't release enough insuilin

Question 29

How is type 1 diabetes managed?

Answer 29

Insulin injection, monitor diet and excerise regularly

Question 30

Is type 1 diabetes temporary or life long?

Answer 30

Life long

Question 31

What us the underlying issue in type two diabetes?

Answer 31

The body's tissue becomes resistant to insulin

Question 32

What factors increas type 2 diabetes

Answer 32

Lack of exercise and poor diet

Question 33

Which age group is most likely to get type 2 diabetes?

Answer 33

Older.

Question 34

What is puberty?

Answer 34

Is the period in which adolescents starts to develop secondary sexual characteristics

Question 35

What happens during puberty?

Answer 35

Depending of voice breast devolp musclr mass increases increase in height

Question 36

Which organ is testorone released from?

Answer 36

Testes

Question 37

Which organ releases oestrogen?

Answer 37

Ovaries

Question 38

How long does the average menstrual cycle last?

Answer 38

28 days

Question 39

What happens in stage one of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 39

Period of bleeding as the uterus lining breaks down

Question 40

What's the name of stage 1 of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 40

Menustration

Question 41

What is stage 2 of the menustral cycle?

Answer 41

Building up the uterus lining

Question 42

What is stage three of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 42

Release of egg from ovaries

Question 43

What's the name for stage three of the menustral cycle?

Answer 43

Ovulation

Question 44

What happens in stage four of the menustral cycle?

Answer 44

Maintenence of the uterus lining

Question 45

What happens after stage four if there is no fertilised eggs?

Answer 45

The cycle starts again

Question 46

If a fertilised egg implants into the uterus lining then the menustrual cycle stops and the lining is maintained

Answer 46

True

Question 47

Which hormones stimulates the uterus lining to devolp?

Answer 47

Oestrogen

Question 48

Which organs are both lutenising hormone and follicle stimulating hormone released from?

Answer 48

Pituitary gland

Question 49

Which hormone stimulates the egg to he released around day 14?

Answer 49

Lh

Question 50

Which hormone stimulates the egg follicle to mature

Answer 50

Fsh

Question 51

Which hormone maintains the lining of the uterus

Answer 51

Progesterone

Question 52

What is contraception?

Answer 52

A method to prevent pregnancy

Question 53

Which hormones can hormonal contraceptives contain?

Answer 53

Progesterone and oestrogene

Question 54

How can oestrogen act as a contraceptive

Answer 54

Inhbits fsh production skills that the eggs won't mature

Question 55

How can progesterone act as a contraceptive?

Answer 55

Stimulates the production of mucus in the cervix so sperms can't enter the uterus

Question 56

Which contraceptive is the longest lasting?

Answer 56

Intrauterine device last more than three years

Question 57

What is the shortest lasting contraceptive?

Answer 57

Contraceptive patch

Question 58

Which contraceptive is the most invasive?

Answer 58

Contraceptive implant

Question 59

How does a spermicide act as a contraceptive?

Answer 59

Destroys or disables the sperms cell

Question 60

If a women goes under sterilisation which structure is cut out?

Answer 60

Her fallopian tubes