Question |
Answer |
What do you call the male gamete |
Sperm cell |
What do you call the female gamete |
Egg cell |
What do you call the fusion of the male and female gamete |
Fertilisation |
Where is sperm made |
Testes |
Where is the egg made |
Ovary |
When a sperm fuses with an egg, what happens |
It makes a new cell, which then begins to divide to develop a baby |
Where in the mother does a baby grow |
In the womb |
Give another name for the womb |
Uterus |
What do you call the time when sex hormones are released and physical changes occur to a young persons body |
Puberty |
Name some physical changes that occur to the boys body |
Voice deepens, body hair grows, penis and testes grow larger and begin to produce sperm |
Name some physical changes that occur to the girls body |
Breasts develop, hips widen, body hair grows, eggs released form ovary every month |
On average how often is an egg released from the ovary |
Every 28 days |
What do you call the release of an egg from the ovary |
Ovulation |
What do you call the cycle where the girls body prepares itself for pregnancy |
Menstrual cycle |
On average, how long is the menstrual cycle |
28days
|
On days 1 to 5 what happens on the menstrual cycle |
Lining of the womb breaks down (bleeding) |
On days 6 to 12 what happens in the menstrual cycle |
Lining of the womb builds back up |
On days 13 to 15, what happens in the menstrual cycle |
Egg is released |
On days 16 to 28, what happens in the menstrual cycle |
Lining stays built up |
After a 28 day cycle, if pregnancy does NOT occur, what happens |
The lining of the womb breaks down and bleeding occurs |
After a 28 day cycle, if pregnancy does occur, what happens |
The new cell, begins to divide and moves to the womb |
Day 11 to day 18, is the time a woman is most likely to get pregnant, what is this time called |
Fertile period |
Can the average length of a fertile period, increase of decrease for women |
Varies for all |
What make a mans penis hard and erect before intercourse |
It fills with blood |
Semen is released from the mans penis during intercourse, what is semen |
A mixture of sperm cells and seminal fluid |
After semen is ejaculated from the penis, where do the sperm go |
They swim up through the uterus to the fallopian tubes |
If an egg is present, what happens in the fallopian tubes, what happens |
Sperm fuses with the egg and fertilisation occurs |
After fertilisation, the fused egg continues to divide in the fallopian tube, where does it eventually go to |
The uterus |
What happens in the uterus |
The fertilised egg embeds in the wall of the uterus which is rich in blood |
What is the placenta |
It is attached to the wall of the womb and is rich in blood vessels |
What do you call the cord that attaches the baby to the mother |
Umbilical cord |