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It's All In Your Mind
All You Need is Love
Biology
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Here's to Your Health
Random Facts
100
Self perception is often linked to this in adolescents.
What is physical appearance?
100
These are often very short-lived during adolescence.
What are romantic relationships?
100
This is a period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes, including sexual maturation.
What is puberty?
100
Only 20% of young people get the recommended amount of this in their diets.
What are fruits and vegetables?
100
As many as 25% of young adolescents experience myopia, because of changes in these.
What are eyes?
200
Until the endocrine system matures, adolescents can recieve surges of this, making them impulsive.
What is adrenaline?
200
Adolescent boys tend to have this type of interest in their relationships with girls.
What is carnal, or physical?
200
This system lies dormant during childhood, but becomes fully active at the onset of puberty.
What is the endocrine system?
200
These become more active in young teens and result in greater need for good hygiene.
What are sweat glands?
200
Teachers can place these in the classroom to accommodate teens' preoccupation with physical appearance.
What are mirrors?
300
This is one of the most common questions adolescents ask themselves.
What is "Am I normal?"
300
Teenage girls have this view of romantic relationships.
What is idealized?
300
Skeletal and muscular growth are largely controlled by this.
What is the thyroid?
300
Teenagers' appetites increase because of this physical change in their bodies.
What is elongation of the stomach?
300
Advanced physical development does not always correlate with this.
What is intellectual or emotional development?
400
This is a major concern for young adolescents, and results in frequent mirror checks.
What is body image?
400
These are the glands responsible for creating sexual traits of males and females.
What are gonads?
400
A loss of coordination and a decrease in fine motor control for teens can be associated with this.
What is rapid growth?
400
Obesity can trigger early onset of this in females.
What is menarche?
400
Late-maturing females tend to develop this type of body shape.
What is ectomorphic, or tall and lean?
500
These are generally better adjusted and establish a more positive personal identity in adulthood.
What are late-maturing boys?
500
These hormones are produced by the reproductive organs and are responsible for physical changes during sexual maturation.
What are testosterone and estradiol?
500
This occurs during adolescence when the last three vertebrae fuse to form the tailbone.
What is ossification?
500
Growing teens require more of these than at any other point in their lives.
What are calories?
500
Parents must ensure teens have this to negotiate the often confusing process of growth and development.
What is factual information? or What is accurate information?