Physical Changes
This the term used to describe the stage when kids’ bodies start to grow and change into adult bodies.
What is puberty?
This organ controls your thoughts, feelings, and movements.
What is the brain?
This skin change is common during puberty, often caused by hormones increasing oil production.
What is acne?
Most teens should get this many hours of sleep a night.
What is 8-10 hours?
This system controls breathing and oxygen exchange.
What is Respiratory system?
This hormone increases in boys that causes deeper voices and muscle growth.
What is testosterone?
Part of the brain that makes teens more emotional and take risks.
What is the Limbic System?
True or False: Puberty only involves physical changes.
False
This is one way teens can manage screen time to protect their mental and physical health.
What is setting limits or taking screen-free breaks?
This system pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the Circulatory system ?
True or False: Everyone starts puberty at the same age.
False
Part of the brain that controls decision-making and is still developing in teens.
What is the Pre-Frontal Cortex?
Give one example of a social change teens experience in high school.
Peer pressure, independence, shifting friend groups, dating
What’s one realistic stress-management strategy for teens?
Deep breathing, journaling, music, walking, talking to someone.
This system breaks down food into nutrients.
What is the Digestive system?
Puberty involves changes you can see, like height and body hair, and changes you can’t see. Name one “hidden” change happening inside the body.
What is brain development, reproductive system maturation, or hormone regulation
Why do teens sometimes act on impulse?
Brain is still developing — prefrontal cortex isn’t fully mature.
This the first sign of puberty most teens notice.
What is a growth spurt?
What is one major benefit of regular physical activity besides staying fit?
Reducing stress, improving mood/mental health, better sleep, less fatigue
This system protects the body from illness and infection.
These two main hormones increase in girls during puberty, leading to breast development and menstrual cycles.
What are estrogen and progesterone?
Around what age does the pre-frontal cortex full develop?
In the mid 20s.
What’s one reason why the timing of puberty can vary between people?
Genetics, nutrition, stress, or environment.
This brain chemical is released when you do something fun, like playing sports or listening to music.
What is dopamine?
These two systems work together to move the body.
What is the Muscular & Skeletal systems?