Understanding Health & Wellness

The leading cause of death in the United States is ____.

• Accidents

• Heart Disease

• Car Crashes

• Cancer

Your genes affect your ____.

• Growth & Development

• Personality

• Health

• All answers are correct.

Conscious choices that increase a person’s chance of developing a disease, unhealthy condition, or injury are known as ____.

• Physical Risk Factors

• Distracted Behavior

• Evironmental Risk Factors

• Behavioral Risk Factors

Humans have 40,000 to 50,000 genes.

• True

• False

Maintaining a healthful diet and exercise regimen can help a person achieve physical fitness.

• True

• False

A disease caused by a defective gene passed down from an ancestral line.

• Genes

• Life Expectancy

• Inherited Disease

• Life Span

An estimate of how long a person is likely to live.

• Inherited Disease

• Life Expectancy

• Life Span

• Genes

The size or popularity of a newspaper or magazine is a good indicator of how much can trust the information it provides. 

• True

• False

Reliable health information can usually be found on websites with URL stems of .gov, .edu, and .org

• True

• False

A problem in one dimension of health will not affect other dimensions of health.

• True

• False