Green Flags (Healthy Relationships)
This basic foundation of a relationship means you can rely on your partner, feel safe with them, and know they won't intentionally hurt your feelings.
What is Trust?
This red flag happens when a partner tries to pull you away from your friends, family, or support systems so you only spend time with them.
What is Isolation?
The stage of life when the body undergoes rapid physical changes and becomes capable of biological reproduction.
What is Puberty?
The two male organs responsible for producing sperm and releasing testosterone.
What are the Testes (or Testicles)?
If an egg is not fertilized, the lining of the uterus breaks down and leaves the body, a monthly process known as this.
What is Menstruation (or a Period)?
This term means giving clear, enthusiastic permission for something to happen, ensuring both people are completely on the same page.
What is Consent?
This term describes a continuous pattern of behavior used to gain power over a partner through physical harm, emotional manipulation, threats, or cruel insults.
What is Abuse?
Controlled by the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland is known as the "master gland" because it produces and releases these chemical messengers to signal changes across the body.
What are Hormones?
The two female organs where eggs (ova) are stored and mature.
What are the Ovaries?
True or False: Tracking a menstrual cycle on a calendar provides 100% foolproof protection against unplanned pregnancy.
What is False? (Cycles can be highly irregular, especially in teens).
In a healthy relationship, this quality ensures that decisions are made together (like what movie to watch) rather than one person making all the rules.
What is Fairness (or Equality)?
This behavior involves a partner making jokes at your expense, calling you names, or putting you down, then telling you that you are "too sensitive" if your feelings get hurt.
Answer: What is Belittling?
This is the primary hormone responsible for male physical development during puberty.
What is Testosterone?
Also known as the womb, this muscular organ is where a fertilized egg implants and grows into a fetus.
What is the Uterus?
True or False: Cracking your knuckles during puberty will permanently cause you to develop arthritis in your hands.
What is False? (It's just gas bubbles bursting in the joint fluid, though it can decrease grip strength over time).
Doing your own hobbies, hanging out with your own friends, and keeping your own goals while dating someone is called maintaining a separate __________.
What is Identity (or Independence)?
This emotion can be normal in small amounts, but it becomes a major red flag when a partner gets angry when you talk to others or demands to check your phone.
What is Extreme Jealousy?
These two hormones are primarily responsible for female physical development and regulating the menstrual cycle.
What are Estrogen and Progesterone?
This monthly process occurs when an ovary releases a mature egg into the fallopian tubes, making fertilization possible.
What is Ovulation?
This is the average length (in days) of a typical human menstrual cycle, though it varies wildly from person to person.
What is 28 Days?
This sign of a healthy relationship involves completely honoring the other person's personal boundaries and never pressuring them to change them.
What is Mutual Respect?
This red flag occurs when one partner tries to dictate what the other person wears, who they can hang out with, or demands constant access to their phone passwords.
What is Control?
Hormones control growth and reproduction, but they also control these other everyday bodily functions (Name 2).
What are Metabolism, Sleep Cycles, Mood, or Body Temperature?
This is the specific biological location where a sperm cell and an egg cell usually meet to achieve fertilization.
What is the Fallopian Tube?
This structure acts as a temporary organ during pregnancy, providing oxygen and nutrients from the mother to the developing baby.
What is the Placenta?