Skeletal Development, Muscle Development, and Growth Spurt
Puberty and Biological Functions
Psychological Implications of Puberty
Hormonal Changes and Puberty
Timing of Puberty and Order of Physical Changes
100
One third of all sports related injuries occur between this age.
What is between the ages of 5 and 14?
100
The increase of weight and size of these two organs gives adolescence more stamina.
What are the heart and lungs?
100
Since it is uncomfortable to sit on hard surfaces for extended periods, teachers should allow this from students.
What is unusual posture?
100
This gland is known as the chief of the endocrine glands.
What is the pituitary gland?
100
Growth in height may occur in boys until as late as this.
What is their late 20s?
200
During periods of rapid growth, the skeletal growth outpaces this type of growth making adolescents more prone to fractures.
What is muscular growth?
200
As many as 25 percent of young adolescence experience this condition causing the inability to focus properly on distant objects.
What is myopia?
200
This is the best source for adolescence to get information on their changing bodies.
What are their parents?
200
The pituitary gland works with this in the brian to control all other the other endocrine glands.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
The increased size of this is the first physical sign of puberty in males.
What are the gonads?
300
During adolescence this process is when three bones fuse together to form the adult coccyx or tailbone.
What is ossification?
300
Only this percent of young people consume the recommended allotment of five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
What is 20 percent?
300
When parents do not take the responsibility of educating their children, young teens will rely on misinformation from these individuals and run the risk of adopting irresponsible attitudes about sexual behavior.
What are their peers?
300
This is what the hormones from the pituitary gland stimulate to produce hormones that are responsible for physical growth.
What is the thyroid gland?
300
The development in these is the first physical change in females.
What are breasts?
400
Girls tend to begin their stage of rapid growth about this far ahead of boys.
What is 2 years?
400
These glands of young teens become more active than they were in childhood and can cause a moist environment for odor causing bacteria to grow?
What are the sweat glands?
400
Young adolescents need to know the range and timing of normal human development will be this.
What is huge?
400
This gland sits like a cap atop each kidney and manufactures adrenaline.
What are the adrenal glands?s
400
This is the biggest factor in predicting the timing of the onset of puberty.
What is heredity?
500
Most adolescents grow between this in height annually during the middle school years.
What is two to four inches.
500
Young adolescence will develop this over time when oil along with dead skin clogs pores.
What is acne?
500
Many early developing females tend to become this and develop to be sort and stocky.
What is endomorphic?
500
In females the gonads are called this and they produce egg cells.
What is the ovaries?
500
This is the point at which a young teen has developed the biological potential to reproduce.