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Understanding Hormones: An 8th Grade Health Review

Delve into the world of hormones with this comprehensive 8th grade review covering gland functions, reproduction processes, and common diseases related to the endocrine system. Learn about the roles of key glands like the thyroid, testes, ovaries, adrenal, and pituitary glands. Explore how the body manages metabolism, growth, blood sugar balance, and more through hormone regulation. Gain insights into essential reproductive functions such as menstruation, ovulation, and sperm production. Discover important information on communicable and non-communicable diseases, the skin's defense mechanisms, and the lymphatic system's role in immunity.

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Understanding Hormones: An 8th Grade Health Review

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  1. Health Review 8th Grade

  2. Hormones • Hormones regulate your body’s functions. • Hormones are created by glands.

  3. Glands • Thyroid Gland – Controls your metabolism, growth and rate of other body systems • Testes – Male sex gland. Responsible for facial hair, broadening of the shoulders and a deepening of the voice. • Ovaries – Female sex gland. • Pancreas – balances blood sugar. • Adrenal Gland – increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels, dilates air passages and participates in the fight-or-flight response. • Pituitary Gland – Regulates the bodies growth.

  4. Reproduction • Urethra – Carries urine and sperm outside the body. • Menstruation – Occurs when an egg is NOT fertilized. • Ovulation – the release of a mature egg cell • Scrotum – the muscular sac that controls the temperature of the testes. • Sperm matures in the epididymis. • The umbilical cord connect the fetus the mother’s placenta.

  5. Diseases • Communicable Disease – A disease that can be passed from one individual to another. • Non-Communicable Disease – a disease that cannot be passes from one individual to another. • The Skin is the first line of defense against diseases. • The lyphatic system works with the immune system to fight off pathogens. • Most STD’s are treatable. • HIV invades T-Cells • HIV is considered AIDS when white blood cells get bellow 200.

  6. Thryroid Gland • Controls your metabolism, growth and rate of other body systems

  7. Adrenal Gland • Increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels, dilates air passages and participates in the fight-or-flight response.

  8. Pituitary Gland • Regulates the bodies growth.

  9. Pancreas • balances blood sugar

  10. Placenta – Umbilical Cord - Uterus

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