AP PSYCHOLOGY
compare and contrast hormones and neurotransmitters​

Hormones: they are the chemicals of the endocrine system used to send messages to organs and tissue throughout the body

neurotransmitters: a chemical substance released at the end of a nerve fiber at the arrival of a nerve impulse, by diffusing across the synapse, which then causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, etc.

Hormones and neurotransmitters are equally both similar and different in many ways. A characteristic that they both share, is that they are both forms of sending messages into the body. The only difference being, a neurotransmitter is sends signals to balance target cells, aka muscles or glands. Hormones send messages and signals throughout the body and organs.

If you are talking about typical sand you would find at the beach or in a river bed here on earth, there are some differences. i would say the first biggest difference is in composition and mineral make up. although the moon is largely made of the same materials as earth’s mantle and surface, the moon experiences very little weathering (no liquid water and virtually no atmosphere). “earth” sand is typically composed mostly of quartz grains. this is because quartz is highly resistant to both physical and chemical weathering. most of the other minerals originally with the quartz are broken down into fine clay and carried away, chemically eroded/ dissolved, or some combination of the two. this usually leaves only the quartz behind, and so most of the time when you see/think of sand, you are talking about quartz. without these weathering mechanisms on the moon, the “sand” (which is likely more silt or clay sized grains anyways) would consist of mostly other minerals like anorthosite, olivine, and proxene.

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