CLASS 8 Chapter 10 Reaching the age of Adolescence

Short answer type questions

 

Question 1. What are the changes that indicate that the person is no longer a child?

Question 2. What do you understand by the term adolescence?

Question 3. What is puberty?

Question 4. List some changes that occur during puberty.

Question 5. What is the name of the growing voice box in boys?

Question 6. Write the main function of sex hormones.

Question 7. What is the period of adolescence?

Question 8. What do you understand by menarche?

Question 9. What decides the sex of the unborn child?

Question 10. What do you understand by a balanced diet?

Long answer type questions

 

Question 1. Write the difference between exocrine glands and endocrine glands.

Question 2. What do you mean by X and Y chromosomes?

Question 3. How are identical twin forms?

Question 4. Illustrate how the sex of the child is determined.

Question 5. What do you understand by menstruation?