Puberty in humans and sexual maturity | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

What is stored in the nucleus of a cell?
- 'DNA' ✓
True or false? Humans reproduce by asexual reproduction.
- True
- False ✓
How do humans grow?
- cells divide to create more cells ✓
- the cells we are born with get bigger
What does reproduction produce?
- 'Offspring' ✓
What is produced when a sperm fertilises an egg?
- fetus
- zygote ✓
- seed
- baby
Who is correct?
- Alex: You can't reproduce until your body has undergone some changes (puberty). ✓
- Andeep: Anyone can reproduce, we don't need to change, just get bigger.
- Laura: Puberty is something only girls can choose to go through.
- Izzy: Puberty is something only women go through because they can have babies.

Match the keyword to the definition.
- puberty
  
  ⇔
  
  the changes that boys and girls go through to become adults ✓
- adolescence
  
  ⇔
  
  the period of the lifecycle between child and adult ✓
- reproduction
  
  ⇔
  
  the process that makes offspring ✓
Choose the name of the substance that controls puberty.
- DNA
- blood
- sperm
- hormone ✓
Match the changes in reproductive system to a boy or a girl.
- boy
  
  ⇔
  
  sperm production ✓
- girl
  
  ⇔
  
  eggs released ✓
Choose the physical change that is not associated with puberty.
- wider hips
- wider shoulders
- brain development ✓
- deeper voice
Choose the two glands that release the sex hormones.
- testes ✓
- thyroid
- pancreas
- ovaries ✓
Choose the correct image of the female reproductive system.
- a
- b
- c ✓
- d

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During puberty in humans, the male and female bodies undergo changes.
The reproductive systems mature to enable adult humans to reproduce.
Other changes also prepare the body for reproduction.
The changes happen because of sex hormones being produced.
Females and males undergo some common changes but also changes that are specific to each sex.

Puberty happens overnight.

A clear slide with a guide to timings of puberty stating that it takes place over several years.

Puberty - Puberty is a name for the physical and psychological changes that take place when a child becomes an adult.
Hormones - Hormones are the chemical messengers released by, and transported around, the body.
Reproduction - Reproduction is the process of producing offspring.