Vocab
The end result of this process is to develop the body so it can reproduce.
What is puberty?
This pair of glands produces sperm and male hormones like testosterone.
What are testes?
What is puberty?
Organs that make substances used by the body.
What are glands?
These glands are located on top of the kidneys.
What are adrenal glands?
This is how you describe someone whose body, having gone through puberty, is fully developed.
What is mature?
It produces hormones that regulate blood sugar and enzymes that break food down in the stomach.
What is the pancreas?
For girls, these grow wider during puberty.
What are hips?
It produces a hormone to help with sleep.
What is the pineal gland?
This gland is located in the neck.
What is the thyroid (gland)?
A substance made in the body that produces effects in other cells or tissues in the body.
What is a hormone?
This pair of glands produces eggs and female hormones.
What are ovaries?
During puberty, boys' and girls' bodies grow more of this on different parts of their bodies.
What is hair?
It's in your neck and produces hormones that control growth and metabolism.
What is the thyroid (gland)?
It's located in the abdomen, behind the stomach and above the liver.
What is the pancreas?
It's what you call the combined chemical and energy processes that occur continuously in a living body.
What is metabolism?
It tells the pituitary gland to start or stop making hormones and connects the endocrine and nervous systems.
What is the hypothalamus?
During puberty, this part of a boy's body get broader as his chest gets bigger.
What are shoulders?
It produces adrenaline (and hormones that affect metabolism).
What is the adrenal gland?
This small, almond-sized gland is located underneath the brain.
What is the pituitary gland?
Its the balanced functional state of the body’s systems to maintain life.
What is homeostasis?
The glands and body structures that create and control the metabolic activity of a body.
What is the endocrine system?
It's a young person in the development stage between childhood and adulthood.
What is an adolescent?
The master gland that tells other glands what to do and produces growth hormone.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is a brain region at the bottom of the brain.
What is the hypothalamus?