front 1 Abstinence | back 1 Avoiding all types of intimate genital contact. |
front 2 Amniotic sac | back 2 A thin-walled sac that surrounds the fetus during pregnancy. |
front 3 Blastocysts | back 3 A ball of cells that forms early in a pregnancy, about five to six days after a sperm fertilizes an egg. |
front 4 Chromosomes | back 4 Thread-like strands that contain hundreds, or even thousands, of genes. |
front 5 Consent | back 5 Asking someone for their permission to do something and accepting their answer. |
front 6 Contraceptive | back 6 A device or preparation that is designed to prevent conception. |
front 7 Dating Violence | back 7 Physical, psychological or sexual abuse; harassment; or stalking of any person ages 12 to 18 in the context of a past or present romantic or consensual. |
front 8 Estrogen | back 8 A substance that tends to cause the development of secondary sex characteristics in the female and promote the growth and normal functioning of the female reproductive system. |
front 9 Fertilization | back 9 The joining of an egg and a sperm. |
front 10 Fetus | back 10 An unborn offspring that develops and grows inside the uterus (womb) of humans and other mammals. |
front 11 Harassment | back 11 If someone is abusing, insulting, or otherwise harming you on a regular basis. |
front 12 Healthy Relationships | back 12 Relationships that involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners and they take effort and compromise from both people. |
front 13 Menstruation | back 13 When ovulation takes place and the egg is not fertilized, the lining of the uterus sheds and drains through the vagina. |
front 14 Ovaries | back 14 These two oval-shaped organs are to the upper right and left of the uterus. |
front 15 Puberty | back 15 The name for the time when your body begins to develop and change as you move from kid to adult. |
front 16 Semen | back 16 A sticky whitish fluid of the male reproductive tract that contains the sperm. |
front 17 Sexual abuse | back 17 Abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another. |
front 18 Sexually Transmitted Disease or Infection | back 18 Infections spread from person to person during sex (vaginal, oral, or anal) or close sexual contact. |
front 19 Sperm | back 19 The human male's sex cell, which when joined with an egg, has the potential to form a new person. |
front 20 Testosterone | back 20 A hormone that plays an important role in sexual development. |
front 21 Zygote | back 21 A cell formed by the union of two sex cells. |