| A | B |
|---|
| Ovaries | Produce egg cells |
| Semen | Mixture of sperm cells and fluid |
| Urethra | Tube that sperm and urine use to leave the male's body |
| Penis | Male sex organ |
| Scrotum | Pouch of skin outside the body that holds the testes |
| Parathyroid gland | Tiny glands near the thyroid that control |
| Thyroid | Located below voice box; control and release of energy from food |
| Hypothalamus | Tiny section of brain in the middle of head that links the nervous systems and the endocrine system; controls pituitary glands but does not produce hormones |
| Pituitary gland | Regulates growth, blood pressure, and help control other endocrine glands; located in brain & doesn't produce hormone |
| Homeostasis | When person's organs stay stable even when things outside the body change |
| Endocrine glands | Organs that produce chemical and release them into blood stream |
| Endocrine system | Body system that controls daily activities and long term stages of development |
| Pancreas | Helps with digestion and produces the hormones of insulin and gluticons which control the amounts of lugers in blood stream; near kidneys |
| Fallopian | Tubes/oviducts which are the passageway for eggs to go through from ovaries to uterus; fertilization usually occurs here |
| Testosterone | Males sex hormones that control |
| Testes | Oval shaped organs in male where sperm is produced; release male sex hormone which is needed to produce sperm |
| Puberty | Time of development usually during teenage years when child becomes adult and able to reproduce |
| Adrenal glands | Located near kidneys and release several different hormones including adrenaline which helps body react in many ways |
| Olervaries | Release female sex hormones called estrogen & progesterone; help trigger female body to produce eggs |
| Secrete | Give off or release |
| Mitosis | Process of cell division |
| Chromosomes | Strand of DNA in nucleus; Rod shaped structure in sex cells that carry inherited characteristics like eye and hair color |
| Negative feedback | System shuts off because of condition it creates |
| Estrogen | Female hormone that triggers the changes to become an adult |
| Target cells | Certain cells that recognize and accept hormone's chemical structures |
| Hormones | Chemical products of endocrine glands they control the activities of many different organs and glands |
| Egg | Female sex cell; human eggs have no shell |
| Sperm | Male sex cell |
| Fertilization | When the egg & sperm join |
| Reproduction | Process of creating new individuals of the same species |
| Zygote | Fertilized egg |
| Vagina | Passageway out of a woman's body; called the birth canal because it is where the baby's comes out |
| Uterus | Hollow pear shaped organ where the baby grows inside its mother |
