CBSE Book Class 8 Science Activity Please Hear

REACHING THE AGEOF ADOLESCENCE

Don't be fooled by me, don't be fooled by the face I wear. For I wear a mask a thousand masks, masks that I am afraid to take off. But don't be fooled, for God's sake don't be fooled.I give the impression that I am secure that all is sunny and unruffled with me that confidence is my name and coolness is my game. 

That the water is calm and I am in command and that I need no one. But don't believe me, please my surface may be smooth but my surface is my mask Beneath dwells the real me, in confusion in fear.But I hide this, I don't want any one to know this. I panic at the thought of my weakness and fear of being exposed. That is why I franatically create a mask to hide behind, a nonchalant, sophisticated facade.

“How appropriate are the lines” thought Arjun as he put away his school magazine after reading the poem as thought the poet could actually read my mind.Arjun was feeling very low today. His music teacher preferred Varun to him to be in the lead in the music chair.  “Why  does  my  sound  voice  sound  so  horrible  these  days”.  Arjun  wondered.  As  it  is,  it  was embarrassing to go to school everyday with his acne ridden face. His friends told him he was getting to be very irritable off late. They were right. He didn't want to do anything but stay in his room all day.

The changes Arjun seems to be undergoing are the changes any one experiences during adolescence. It is a complex stage when the child enters to emerge as an adult by attaining reproductive maturity. Let us see how adolescent wise are you.

Solve this word search, to find words associated with adolescence. The letters are arranged in several different  ways  –  horizontally  left  to  right  and  right  to  left,  vertically,  upside  down,  diagonally  etc. Identify the terms, the clues for which are provided below: (Clue No 1 is solved for your convenience)

CLUES

1. Female Hormone

2. Controls blood glucose level

3. Its deficiency causes goiter.

4. Found on oily skin.

5. Stoppage of menstruation.

6. Male reproductive Organ

7. Voice box

8. Male gametes

9. Master endocrine gland.

10. Results from imbalanced diet

11. Female gametes 

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