Puberty

Why do women's hips get broad through puberty?

• to make the women more sexy
• to make them faster at running
• to prepare the women for when they have periods.
• to prepare the women to carry a baby

Puberty is the time when your body begins to ______________.

• become shorter and heavier.

• develop and change from a kid to an adult.

• change fast and lose weight.

• stop hormones and minerals.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

If you are happy one day, sad the next day, and then angry you have ______________.

• coordination

• skeleton system

• mood swings

• patience

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

These chemicals tell the body to change and grow during puberty.

• adrenal
• respiratory
• digestive
• hormones

Name the gland that controls growth during puberty.

• endocrine
• pituitary
• thymus 
• adrenal

Men stop making sperm  _________

• around age 60
• when they die
• after they have kids
• after puberty

True or False: some changes that happen in boys, happen for girls too.

• True
• False

True or False: Testosterone is the hormone that causes changes to happen in a boys body.

• True
• False

Sperm look like __________

• tadpoles
• salamanders
• noodles

Girls release _______ from their ovaries

• uterus
• eggs
• glands
• urine