What is Health and Wellness?
Changes During the Teen Years
Taking Responsibility for Your Health
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A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being is known as what?
What is health.
100
Changes to your physical, mental/emotional, and social health are most apparent during which stage of life?
What is adolescence.
100
Behaviors and habits that help determine a person's level of health and wellness is known as what?
What is lifestyle factors.
100
List the three parts of the health triangle.
What is physical, mental/emotional, and social.
100
Define peers.
What are people in your age group.
200
A state of well-being, or total health is known as what?
What is wellness.
200
The time when you start developing physical characteristics of adults of your gender is known as what?
What is puberty.
200
Actions or behaviors that might cause injury or harm to yourself or others is known as what?
What are risk behaviors.
200
List three positive lifestyle factors.
What is eating healthy, daily physical activity, sleep 8-9 hours/night, doing well in academics, avoiding tobacco & drugs, building positive relationships.
200
Define community service.
What are volunteer programs whose goal is to improve the community and the life of its residents.
300
Fill in the blank. Participating in daily physical activity is a good way to improve your _________ health.
What is physical.
300
During puberty, body hair growth and changes in the shape of your body are both examples of what changes?
What is physical.
300
A way of life that includes little physical activity is known as what?
What is sedentary lifestyle.
300
List 2 risk behaviors.
What are smoking and drinking alcohol.
300
Define prevention.
What is taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse.
400
Fill in the blank. Knowing and accepting who you are is a good way to improve your __________ health.
What is mental/emotional.
400
This gender generally begins puberty earlier than the other gender.
What is female or girls.
400
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk is known as what?
What are cumulative risks.
400
List two ways to avoid poor health.
What are prevention, precaution, and abstinence.
400
Define attitude.
What is a personal feeling or belief.
500
Fill in the blank. Developing positive relationships with family and friends is an example of _________ health.
What is social.
500
Chemical substances, produced in glands, that help regulate many body functions.
What are hormones.
500
Planned actions taken before an event to increase the chances of a safe outcome is known as what?
What are precautions.
500
List two examples of community service.
What are volunteer programs that their goal is to help its citizens.
500
Daily double! Define adolescence.
What is the stage of life between childhood and adulthood.
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