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Directions: Answer using complete sentences! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Their Endocrine System. Challenge yourself and try the highest level you can!
Subject: The Endocrine System: How many body functions are controlled.
Level#1: There are many different kinds of endocrine glands scattered throughout the human body. Together, they make up the endocrine system. The job of the endocrine system is to help control body functions. Many body functions are controlled by chemical messengers.
1. What do the many different kinds of endocrine glands in the body make up?
2. What is the job of the endocrine system?
3. What are many body functions controlled by?
Level#2: There are many different kinds of endocrine glands scattered throughout the human body. Together, they make up the endocrine system. The job of the endocrine system is to help control body functions. Many body functions are controlled by chemical messengers. Endocrine glands produce chemical substances that are released directly in the bloodstream. These chemical substances are called hormones. Hormones regulate body functions. Different endocrine glands produce different hormones. Each gland has a different function.
1. What do the different kinds of endocrine glands scattered throughout the body make?
2. What does the endocrine system do and how does it do it?
3. What do endocrine glands produce and what are they called?
Level#3: There are many different kinds of endocrine glands scattered throughout the human body. Together, they make up the endocrine system. The job of the endocrine system is to help control body functions. Many body functions are controlled by chemical messengers. Endocrine glands produce chemical substances that are released directly in the bloodstream. These chemical substances are called hormones. Hormones regulate body functions. Different endocrine glands produce different hormones. Each gland has a different function. For example, the thyroid releases a hormone that controls how quickly the body uses energy. The pancreas makes a hormone that controls the amount of sugar in the blood. Endocrine glands release their hormones into the space that surrounds them. Then, the hormones pass into the blood vessels. The blood carries the hormones throughout the body to the correct cells.
1. Explain what the endocrine system does and how it does it.
2. Explain what endocrine glands do, what the chemical substances they release are called, and what these substances do.
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