Chapter 1 Health Test

Which term refers to the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being?

• Health

• Health education

• Prevention

• Health literacy

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

What is the overall state of well-being, or total health, called?

• Wellness

• Prevention

• Health literacy

• Media

Which term describes the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices?

• Health education

• Health literacy

• Prevention

• Peers

A nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States is called:

• Healthy People 2010

• Wellness

• Media

• Abstinence

What is the sum of an individual’s traits that were biologically passed along by both parents?

• Heredity

• Culture

• Environment

• Peers

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Radio and television are examples of which influence on health?

• Media

• Peers

• Culture

• Heredity

Avoiding harmful behaviors, including sexual activity before marriage and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, is known as:

• Abstinence

• Risk behaviors

• Cumulative risks

• Health literacy

Cumulative risks are best described as:

• Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk

• One-time risks that do not add up

• Risks that only affect physical health

• Risks that are always avoidable

Which of the following is the first step toward becoming responsible for your health?

• Increasing your health literacy

• Practicing abstinence

• Identifying risk behaviors

• Setting health goals

People of the same age who share similar interests are called:

• Peers

• Media

• Culture

• Environment