Understanding Health and Wellness

1. A balanced health triangle helps to maintain your _____________.

• total health
• heredity
• prevention
• refusal skills

2. Exercising every day is part of caring for your ________________.

• peers
• mental/emotional health
• physical health
• hormones

3. Helping friends and family members achieve their goals is part of your _________________.

• physical health
• social health
• resilience
• mental/emotional health

4. The way in which your emotions affect your physical and overall health is part of _______________________.

• resilience
• adulthood
• the mind-body connection
• goal setting

5. Your physical ______________ includes where you live, housing, climate, and air and water quality.

• environment
• wellness
• heredity
• character

6. ____________is the passing on of traits from parents to their children.

• Being a role model
• Environment
• Heredity
• Character

7. To make healthful choices, you must access _____________ information.

• ignore
• believe
• advocate
• reliable

8. _________________ skills settle disagreements peacefully.

• Refusal
• Decision making
• Conflict-resolution
• Goal setting

9. All of the following are ways to decide if a risk is worth taking EXCEPT:

• flip a coin
• think of all the possible consequences
• check the facts
• ask a parent or other trusted adult

10. When one factor adds to another to increase the danger

• Total health
• Consequence
• Risk
• Cumulative Risk
• Mindy-body connection