hormones and menstrual cycle

Question 1

What are hormones?

Answer 1

chemical messengers used by the endocrine system

Question 2

What is the endocrine system?

Answer 2

glands that secret hormones into the bloodstream

Question 3

what are hormones produced by?

Answer 3

glands

Question 4

What is the function does of the thyroxide hormone ?

Answer 4

controls bloodstream

Question 5

What is the function does of the growth hormone ?

Answer 5

causes growth

Question 6

What is the function does of the insulin hormone ?

Answer 6

controls the blood

Question 7

What is the function does of the adrenaline hormone ?

Answer 7

prepares for self defence

Question 8

What is the function does of the oestrogen hormone ?

Answer 8

sexual characteristics

Question 9

What is the function does of the testis hormone ?

Answer 9

makes sperm

Question 10

What do heart muscle cells do with adrenaline

Answer 10

heart muscle cells contrast more rapidly and strongly increasing heart rate and blood

Question 11

What do liver cells do with adrenaline

Answer 11

change glycoren to glucose and release it into blood

Question 12

What do wide blood vessels do with adrenaline?

Answer 12

increasing diameter of vessel to increase blood flow to muscle

Question 13

What do narrow blood vessels do with adrenaline?

Answer 13

narrowing vessels to reduce blood flow to organs.

Question 14

what is menstruation?

Answer 14

the breakdown and loss of thing lining of the uterus

Question 15

what is puberty?

Answer 15

when the body develops to allow reproduction

Question 16

what is the menopause?

Answer 16

when the menstrual cycle stops completely

Question 17

what is fertilisation?

Answer 17

fusing of the male and female gametes

Question 18

what is pregnancy?

Answer 18

the time during when a fertilised egg develops till birth

Question 19

what is ovulation?

Answer 19

the release of an egg from an ovary

Question 20

what is a period?

Answer 20

the ‘bleed’ that occurs during menstruation

Question 21

What is stage one of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 21

day 1-5 of the menstrual cycle when the uterus lining breaks down.

Question 22

What is stage two of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 22

day 6-12 of the menstrual cycle when the egg cells starts to mature in the ovaries

Question 23

What is stage three of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 23

day 14 when the egg cell is released from the ovaries

Question 24

What is stage four of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 24

days 16-28 when the lining continues to thicken and if there’s not a fertilised egg the cycle starts again

Question 25

what does fsh do?

Answer 25

stimulates the growth and maturation of egg

Question 26

what is LH?

Answer 26

ovulation

Question 27

What does oestrogen do?

Answer 27

stops release of fsh, stimulates release of Lh , thickens uterus lining

Question 28

What does progesterone do?

Answer 28

maintain the lining of uterus, inhibits fsh and lh release

Question 29

What does the falling levels on oestrogen and progesterone do?

Answer 29

trigger menstruation

Question 30

What are 2 barrier methods of contraception?

Answer 30

the pill
condoms

Question 31

How do condoms prevent fertilisation?

Answer 31

they work as a barrier to not let sperm reach the egg

Question 32

How does the hormone pill prevent fertilisation?

Answer 32

thickens cervical mucus creating a barrier against sperm.

Question 33

What’s the name given to organs that secrete hormones?

Answer 33

endocrine glands