28 Unit 1 Reaching Your Potential
REVIEW
AND
ASSESSMENT CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER SUMMARY
As a teen, several major changes in your life await
you. These include developing mature relationships,
having a career, living on your own, and perhaps
choosing a marriage partner and raising a family.
An important step in preparing for these changes is
knowing and accepting your personal identity.
You inherited unique characteristics from your
biological parents that influence every aspect about
you. Your inherited traits can also be passed on to
future generations.
The development of your inherited characteristics
is influenced by your environment. Everything and
everybody in your environment affect your growth and
development. Your heredity and environment work
together to make you a unique person. Understanding
how these factors impact you can help you make wise
choices that lead to developing your full potential.
VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES
1. In teams, create categories for the following terms
and classify as many of the terms as possible.
Share your ideas with the class.
Content Terms
adolescence (1.1)
axon (1.2)
brain plasticity (1.3)
carrier (1.2)
chromosome (1.2)
cultural heritage (1.3)
dendrite (1.2)
developmental task (1.1)
DNA (1.1)
environment (1.3)
family tree (1.2)
gene (1.1)
genetics (1.2)
genotype (1.2)
heredity (1.2)
intelligence (1.2)
neuron (1.2)
neurotransmitter (1.2)
peer (1.3)
personal identity (1.1)
prenatal (1.3)
Punnett square (1.2)
resilience (1.3)
self-esteem (1.1)
synapse (1.2)
2. Write each of the following terms on a sheet
of paper. For each term, quickly write a word
you think relates to the term. In small groups,
exchange papers. Take turns having each person
explain a term on the list until all terms have been
explained. If team members disagree with any
explanation, refer to a current dictionary.
Academic Terms
dominant gene (1.2)
interdependent (1.1)
life span (1.1)
media (1.3)
recessive gene (1.2)
sibling (1.3)
technology (1.3)
trait (1.2)
unique (1.1)
window of opportunity
(1.2)
ASSESS
Your Knowledge
3. Define personal identity, heredity, and environment.
4. List the major developmental tasks of the teen
years.
5. Identify the hereditary factors that affect
development.
6. Identify the environmental factors that impact
development.
Your Understanding
7. What can you do to prepare for future life changes?
8. How is your life path unique? How is your life
interdependent with others?
9. How does each developmental task of the teen
years relate to future changes in life?
10. How does heredity affect the way a person grows
and develops?
11. How does a person’s environment affect his or
her growth and development?
Your Skills
12. Identify your personal characteristics and which
are influenced by your heredity.
13. Analyze how the global environment has affected
you personally and explain ways that it has
affected your growth and development.
14. Predict ways you could respond with resilience to
various factors in your life to stimulate your own
growth to maturity.
15. Identify a change that you will face when you
graduate from high school. Describe the steps you
can take to prepare for and manage that change.
CRITICAL THINKING
16. Predict Outcomes. Choose one of the following
activities and write a paragraph predicting
the consequences of the activity on your
environment. Explain how the action could affect
other people, such as family members, friends,
classmates, or teachers. Include both direct and
indirect effects of the action. Cite evidence from
the text to support your predictions.
• Going camping with friends for the weekend
• Participating in a school sport
• Working at a part-time job after school
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