1-2 What Affects Your Health

1-2 What Affects Your Health

Open Ended

List some of the influences on your health?

Multiple Choice

Heredity is defined as:

• All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents

• The sum of your surroundings

• People of the same age who share similar interest

• The collective beliefs and customs, and behaviors of a group

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Now that you know what heredity is. What are some health conditions that may run in your family? Knowing these conditions can help you make lifestyle changes to prevent or limit those conditions

Multiple Choice

Environment is defined as

• all the traits that were passed down to you

• the sum of your surroundings

• people of the same age group who share similar interest

• The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

Multiple Select

Environment Includes

-Physical places in which you live

-People who make up your world

-The culture you live in

• True

• False

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Choose one of the environmental factors and explain how it directly affects your health

-neighborhood safety

-school safety

-air quality

-parks/recreational facilities

-availability if libraries

-access of medical care

-cleanliness of your surroundings

Multiple Choice

Peers defined as

• all the traits that were passed down to you from your parents

• the sum of your surroundings

• people of the same age group who share similar interest

• the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

Open Ended

List one positive way and one negative way your peers can influence you.

Open Ended

On a scale of 1-10 where would you place your attitude and why?

Multiple Select

Your attitude determines your success in life. Those with positive attitudes are usually better off than those with a negative attitude.

• True

• False

Open Ended

What are some behaviors that you feel like you need to improve?

Multiple Choice

Media is defined as

• The various methods for communicating information

• Radio, Television, Internet

• The sum of your surroundings

• People of the same age group who share similar interest.

Multiple Choice

Technology is defined as

• Radio, Television, Internet

• The various methods for communicating information

• The sum of your surroundings

• The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

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