Health Chapter 1

A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being

• health

• wellness

• hormones

A state of well being, or total health

• wellness

• health

• adolescence

The time when you start developing physical characteristics of your gender

• puberty

• hormones

• adolescence

The stage of life between childhood and adulthood

• abstinence

• peers

• adolescence

Chemical substances produced in glands that help regulate many body functions

• attitude

• peers

• hormones

People in your own age group

• puberty

• peers

• family

Actions that might cause injury or harm to yourself or others

• abstinence

• risk behaviors

• attitude

The conscious, active choice to not participate in high-risk behaviors

• wellness

• health

• abstinence

Taking steps to keep something you want from happening or getting worse

• prevention

• health

• peers

a personal feeling or belief

• puberty

• risk behavior

• attitude