What Affects Your Health?

Select all that are influences on your health.

• environment

• attitude

• heredity

• your birth month

Traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.

• the media

• heredity

• attitude

• culture

Which of the following DOES NOT explain your environment

• the physical places you live

• the people in your life

• your gender

• your culture

Which is a negative influence your peers can have on your health.

• engaging in risk behaviors

• becoming more active

• develop new interests

• develop new friendships

The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group is known as

• heredity

• culture

• risk behaviors

• peers

Every Independence Day Joanna and her entire family go to the town park to watch the fireworks. This is an example of what.

• their responsibility as Americans

• a cultural tradition

• a party

• heredity

Someone that always sees the bad in things are known as...

• optimists

• optometrists

• pessimists

• practitioners

Choosing valid health information through media and technology is important. There are particular websites you should look into. Which of the following is not a reliable website/source for health information.

• .gov websites

• .org websites

• .com websites

• .edu websites

Spongebob has a biological predisposition to dry up and shrink when he is not surrounded by water. This predisposition passed to him from his parents would be an example of what.

• unhealthy behaviors

• peer pressure

• culture

• heredity

The various methods of communicating information

• media

• peer pressure

• heredity

• culture