Across
- 2. people who actively support a cause
- 4. rank order
- 6. includes all the conditions and situations that surround and affect a child
- 10. a society that sees children as important
- 11. includes all the traits that are passed to a child from blood relatives
- 12. to understand and relate
- 13. to grow and feel fulfilled as a person
- 14. predicts when development will likely occur
- 15. an optimal time when a person can learn a new task
- 18. impossible to make smaller or simpler
- 19. can also be called stages or milestones
Down
- 1. a set of statements offered as a possible explanation for a phenomenon
- 3. the gradual process through which babies become adults
- 5. watching children in their natural environments
- 7. the scientific study of children from conception to adolescences
- 8. situations that cause worry and anxiety
- 9. consists of chemicals that can turn genes on and off
- 16. sections of the DNA molecule found in a person's cells that determine their traits
- 17. the study of factors that involve the passing of traits