Caffeine & Teens

What is caffeine?

• a powder like substance that tastes sweet

• something people need to survive

• a chemical found in coffee, tea, and soda.

What are neural connections?

• things that help make you healthier

• the trillions of signals in your brain that create your thoughts, feelings, memories & actions

• when you spend time with a friend and get to know someone

What is an adolescent?

• when you add and get a number less than

• someone who has a dull sense of smell

• a young person developing into an adult

What is fatigue?

• full of energy

• extreme tiredness

• catching up on sleep

What is consumption?

• eating, drinking, or ingesting something

• reading and understanding what you text

• when you don't understand something

What is synaptic pruning?

• when your brain shuts off at night

• when your brain rapidly make billions of connections

• when the brain removes connections that aren't needed

What is adenosine?

• a chemical made in the brain which increases each hour you're awake

• a chemical that makes you feel sleepier as the day goes on

• a chemical that triggers hunger pains in your stomach

What is anxiety?

• a feeling of confidence

• a feeling of worry or nervousness

• a feeling of happiness

What is controversy?

• when you have a conversation with a friend

• a disagreement or an argument about something

• something that happens when you're asleep

What does "association does not imply causation" mean?

• Thinking that two ideas mean the same thing

• Thinking incorrectly that if something happens, then one thing must have caused the other.

• Thinking that something isn't really what it seems to be