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Boojho was celebrating his 12th birthday. After his friends left, Boojho and Paheli began chatting with their parents. Paheli studies in an all-girls school. She started laughing. She remarked that many of Boojho’s school friends, whom she met after a year, had suddenly shot up in height. Some of them were looking very funny with a hairy line above their lips. Her mother explained that the boys had grown up. Growth begins from the day one is born. But upon crossing the age of 10 or 11, there is a sudden spurt in growth which becomes noticeable. The changes taking place in the body are part of growing up. They indicate that you are _________ no longer a child but are on the way to becoming an adult. I wonder how long this period marked by changes in the body will last.
OF ADOLESCENCE
Adolescence begins around the age of 11 and lasts up to 18 or 19 years of age. Since this period covers the ëteensà (13 to 18 or 19 years of age), adolescents are also called ëteenagersÃ.
adolescence
The most important change which marks puberty is that boys and girls become capable of ______.
reproduction
The following ______ gives the average rate of growth in height of boys and girls with age.
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The figures in columns 2 and 3, give the ______ of the height a person has reached at the age given in column 1.
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A boy is 9 years old and 120 cm tall. At the end of the growth period he is likely to be 120 × 100 cm = ______ cm tall
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Use the data given in Activity 10.1 to draw a ______. Take age on the X-axis and per cent growth in height on the Y-axis.
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Find out the ______ of height you have already reached.
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Calculate the ______ you might eventually reach.
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The period of life, when the body undergoes changes, leading to reproductive maturity, is called _____________.
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In ______, adolescence may begin a year or two earlier than in boys. Also, the period of adolescence varies from person to person.
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