A small organ the size of a pea that is at the base of the brain.
What is Pituitary gland?
100
During rapid growth, this system grows faster than the growth of muscle.
What is the skeletal system?
100
With the increase in weight of the heart and the increase of the size of the lungs, adolescents show an increase of this.
What is stamina?
100
A gland becomes more active in young teens.
What is the sweat gland?
100
An adolescent's preocupation with their appearance.
What is body image?
200
A gland located in the throat that produces hormones responsible for growth.
What is the thyroid gland?
200
These areas of the long bones are often softer and weaker.
What are the growth plate's?
200
Oil and dead skin can clog a pore and cause and infection of the skin.
What is a pimple?
200
It grows in a warm and moist environment.
What is odor causing bacteria?
200
The biggest concern for young teens, especially girls.
What is body shape?
300
Organs that play a major role in physical development and behavior of adolescents.
What are the adrenal glands?
300
It can cause permanent damage to joints, muscles, tendins, ligaments and bone.
What is overuse and repetitive motion?
300
An inability to focus on distant objects.
What is myopia?
300
How males are viewed by girls in elementary school.
What is the enemy?
300
According to this person, it is to the male's advantage to mature early.
Who is Santrock?
400
In boys they are called testes and in girls they are called ovaries and they are stimulated by the pituitary to create sexual traits of the maturing male and female.
What is the gonads or sexglands.
400
The process in which last three vertebrae fuse together to form the adult tailbone.
What is Ossification?
400
What adolescents get from food that fuels the body.
What are calories?
400
Girls that have "these" are often afforded a higher place within their peer group.
What are boyfriends?
400
These people found that girls that developed by the sixth grade were happier with their body image than those that devloped late.
Who are Blyth and Simmons?
500
The hormones that are produced by the gonads.
What is testosterone and estradiol?
500
The time in which young adolescents have trouble doing task's that they normally didn't have any issues with before.
What is the akward stage?
500
This type of calorie is found in foods that are high in fat and sugar.
What are empty calories?
500
Boys are more interested in this than girls at this stage.
What is physical intimacy?
500
The more socially accepted body shape that is devleoped by late-maturing females.