Health

Question 1

What are the three categories of risk factors? Give a description for each one.

Answer 1

heredity-inheriting a disease like Muscular Dystrophy, high blood pressure, cancer, etc.
Environmental- physical (pollution), cultural (food and clothing), and social (peer pressure)
Behavioral- making decisions (wether to wear proper biking equipment)

Question 2

What is the well being of your body, mind, and relationships with other people?

Answer 2

Health

Question 3

What is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life?

Answer 3

quality of life

Question 4

What describes a person’s ability to gather and understand health information and then use the information to improve his or her health?

Answer 4

health literacy

Question 5

What are the beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation?

Answer 5

culture

Question 6

What are all the traits that are passed biologically from parent to child?

Answer 6

heredity

Question 7

What are three characteristics of teens with low self esteem?

Answer 7

violent behavior
eating disorder
teen pregnancy

Question 8

What are the 6 common emotions?

Answer 8

anger
fear
love
guilt
happiness
sadnesss

Question 9

What refers to how much you like yourself and feel good about yourself?

Answer 9

self esteem

Question 10

What is the emotional state in which you feel hopeless and worthless?

Answer 10

depression

Question 11

What consists of the unique combination of traits that make you an individual?

Answer 11

personality

Question 12

What are people who study the human mind and behavior?

Answer 12

physchologist

Question 13

What is an unconscience coping strategy?

Answer 13

defense mechanism

Question 14

What percent of all fatal automobile crashes are alcohol related?

Answer 14

40%

Question 15

What are 4 factors that affect a person’s B. A. C.?

Answer 15

gender
age, weight, height
rate of consumption and absorption of alcohol
volume of alcohol

Question 16

What is the legal drinking age?

Answer 16

21

Question 17

What is the legal B.A. C. in the state of Mississippi for operating a motor vehicle?

Answer 17

0.08

Question 18

What are three life threatening short term effects of drinking alcohol?

Answer 18

overdose
synergism
motor vehicle crashes

Question 19

What are three long term health risks of drinking alcohol over time?

Answer 19

liver damage
heart damage
brain damage

Question 20

Alcohol is a drug that is a drug that acts as a powerful ____________.

Answer 20

depressant

Question 21

One in every ___ American’s grow up in an alcoholic family.

Answer 21

8

Question 22

Describe Alcoholics Anonymous.

Answer 22

support group for alcoholics

Question 23

Describe Al-Anon.

Answer 23

support group for family members that live with an alcohoic

Question 24

Describe Ala-Teen.

Answer 24

support group for teens that live with an alcoholic parent

Question 25

What refers to the many negative effects alcohol has on a drinker's blood?

Answer 25

intoxication

Question 26

What is the percentage of the amount of ethanol in a person's blood?

Answer 26

Blood Alcohol Concentration

Question 27

What is it called when drugs increase each other's effects when they are taken together?

Answer 27

synergism

Question 28

People who have an addiction to alcohol suffer from what?

Answer 28

alcoholism

Question 29

What is any chemical that causes a change in a person's body or behavior?

Answer 29

drug

Question 30

What are the four leading causes of death for young people? (age 15-24)

Answer 30

Motor vehicle accidents homicide suicide cancer