Marin Careway Chapter 11

2. A common condition affecting the bronchial tubes, causing children to have serious breathing difficulties due to a variety of stimuli.
6. Heredity, environment, and evolutionary adaptations to particular climates all lead to ___ variations in body size.
7. Physical ___ supports children’s self-worth, academic success, and cognitive and social skills.
10. Because of prenatal exposure to androgens, boys tend to engage more in rough-and-___ play than girls, although both genders engage in it.
13. When children consistently observe arguments and fights between their peers, they discover a regular lineup of winners and losers, which leads to ___ hierarchy
15. Girls are more advanced than boys in __ motor development skills such as drawing and handwriting.
16. The type of motor development in which children develop flexibility, balance, agility, and force.
17. Girls reach an adolescent body ___ spurt 2 years earlier than boys.

1. The leading cause of child fatalities, with the fatality rate rising from middle childhood to adolescence.
3. Organized games that support children’s health, social wellbeing, and motor skills.
4. The eye condition ___ increases steadily as one grows to adulthood.
5. A person has ___ when their body mass index is greater than 20% over their healthy weight.
8. ___ problems can lead to affected cognitive functioning, lowered IQ, and mental health problems.
9. Improved nutrition and health are the main reasons for ___ trends in physical growth.
11. A condition occurring in some school-age children, in which their upper and lower teeth don’t correctly meet.
12. Bed ___ is a problem 15% of children in industrialized nations suffer from, and often stems from people’s biology.
14. Nocturnal ___ is caused when the muscles that control urination fail, or it can be caused by a hormone imbalance.