New Life

Question 1

What are the female sex hormones called

Answer 1

Oestrogen and progesterone

Question 2

What is ovulation

Answer 2

When an egg is realised from the ovary to the Fallopian tube. Occurs middle of menstrual cycle.

Question 3

What is the menstrual cycle

• include menopause

Answer 3

If the egg isn’t fertilised it dies.
Unwanted lining of womb and egg flows out the body. (Uterus - vagina - body)
Menopause occurs at age of 45-55

Question 4

Explain sperms journey

Answer 4

Sperm is made and stored in testes

• testes is in pouch of skin called scrotum
• sperm travels from testes to sperm duct to penis.
• on its way it mixed with semen
• the semen and sperm spurt from penis into valine

Question 5

Fertilisation

Answer 5

A perm goes up through vagina into Fallopian tube. It occurs when egg and sperm unite

Question 6

Sexual intercourse

Answer 6

• blood vessels in penis fill causing it to be stiff

- semen which has lots of sperm is realised into vagina

Question 7

Pregnancy

Answer 7

• egg implants in lining of womb, it’s called embryo
• grows for 40 weeks. After 8 it’s called foetus
• foetus protected my amniotic fluid
• umbilical cord attaches foetus to mom at placenta

Question 8

Healthy pregnancy

Answer 8

• avoid smoking, alcohol, drugs

- eat healthy diet e.g coeliac acid

Question 9

Responsible sexual behaviour:
What it can cause
(3)

Answer 9

Unwanted pregnancy

• low self esteem
• feeling used
• sti (sexually transmitted infections)

Question 10

Birth (5)

Answer 10

• women giving birth are in labour
• bag of amniotic fluid bursts, womb begins to contract
• cervix must open wide
• when baby’s out, umbilical cord is cut and clamped
• placenta passes out after. Called afterbirth

Question 11

Name the female sex organs and function (4)

Answer 11

Ovaries: produce and store eggs
Fallopian tube: links ovaries to womb (uterus)
Uterus/womb: developing baby grows here. Neck of uterus called cervix
Vagina: (birth canal), tube from cervix to outside body