Completar frases Nervous & Endocrine ObjectivesVersión en línea Nervous & Endocrine Objectives fill in the blanks por Michelle Testa 1 quickly nerves glands cause regulate messages slower adrenaline nerves stimulus brain gravity light made hormones circulatory Plants nervous react not response stimuli spinal hormone endocrine effect bloodstream insulin blood The function of the nervous and endocrine systems is to ( control ) the body . The nervous system is made up of the , the cord , and the . The endocrine system is made up of and . Hormones travel in the blood ( but the blood is part of the system , the endocrine system ! ) The system passes messages from the body to the brain and back through the . Like electricity moving through a wire - the messages travel very from the brain to the body and the boy to the brain . The system sends messages from the glands to other body parts through the . Hormone messages travel much than nervous system messages . A is a chemical that acts like a message when it reaches a body part . Examples include ( which tells cells to take in sugar ) , ( which tells blood vessels to get bigger , lungs to breathe more , and heart to beat faster ) , and oxytocin ( which tells the nervous system if the body is too hot or too cold ) . Hormones are in glands and move through the . Stimulus - response pathways is how the nervous system sends . A is a change in the environment outside of the body . A message is then sent to the brain through the nerves . The brain then sends a to the body for what it should do to . A stimulus is a ( what happens ) . A response is an ( what the body does ) . do not have a nervous system ( no brain , spinal cord , or nerves ) , but they do respond to ( plural of stimulus ) . They move toward and grow away from .