How does the body regulate blood sugar levels?

Use the diagram and your prior knowledge to answer the questions

1. Where does the glucose in your blood come from? 2. When do you think the sugar levels in your blood will be at their highest? 3. What hormone is released when your blood sugar levels are high? 4. Which organ in the body releases this hormone? 5. How does this hormone travel from this organ to the liver? 6. This hormone causes the liver to take glucose out of the blood what is it stored as? 7. When blood glucose levels are low what hormone is released? 8. This hormone causes glucose to be released into the blood which organ is responsible for this? 9. What do you think is converted to make the glucose that is released when glucose levels are low (hint: what was stored when blood sugar levels were high)

10. Use your answers above to write a paragraph explaining how the body regulates blood sugar levels

11. Diabetes is a disease which stops the body from being able to reduce the levels of sugar/glucose in the blood. Using your knowledge from the information you have gained explain what you think goes wrong in the body of someone who has diabetes.

C grade answers what happens, some scientific terms A/B grade answers what happens, how/why does it happen, scientific terms throughout