Health Final Exam Review
Chapter 1 & 2
1. Controllable risk factors for heart disease include
Physical Activity smoking, weight
2. Knowledge of health information needed to make good health decisions is
Health Literacy
3. The risk behaviors that cause the most serious health problems today include
Sedentary Lifestyles, sexual activity and behaviors, alcohol drug and tobacco use
4. What is the single leading preventable cause of death in the United States?
Tobacco use
5. What is the major cause of death for teens?
Car accidents
6. Many of the leading causes of death among teenagers and adults can best be prevented through
Lifestyle changes
7. What is a life skill?
Tool for building a healthy life
8. A goal is
Something that you work towards, and hope to achieve
9. Prior to the twentieth century, what were the leading causes of death?
Infectious diseases
10. What is the cause of most health problems today?
lifestyle
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. / physical health / e. / lifestyle diseaseb. / wellness / f. / emotional health
c. / risk factor / g. / spiritual health
d. / sedentary
_F___ 11. ability to control and appropriately express feelings
_D___ 12. not taking part in physical activity on a regular basis
_A___ 13. aspects of health related to the body (fitness, nutrition, drug use)
_C___ 14. anything that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other health problems
_G___ 15. ability to find peace with yourself and with those around you
_B___ 16. state of well-being that comes from a good balance of the six components of health
_E___ 17. a disease caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors
Chapter 3 & 4
18. People with high self-esteem
Can easily talk with people
19. You can improve your self-esteem by
Celebrating strengths, using positive self talk, accepting yourself
20. Which of these symptoms does not indicate depression?
Intense anger about an injustice
21. Which is not a way to improve your listening skills?
Thinking about something else
22. Miscommunication can result in
Argument, hurt feelings, unsatisfying relationships
23. Angelina has just won first place in an ice-skating competition. She likes to share her good feelings and enjoyment of ice skating by volunteering some time every week to teach handicapped children how to skate. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Angelina is at the level known as
Self-Actualization
24. Stress is caused by
Behavior stressors, lifestyle stressors, thinking stressors
25. Freezing up before speaking in front of an audience is a response to
Distress
26. The best way to defend yourself from stress-related illness is to
Exercise, get enough sleep, eat right
27. Saying positive things to yourself in order to develop a more positive attitude is called
Self-talk
28. A behavior that does not indicate that a person may be thinking about committing suicide is
Taking care of their appearance
29. Many people who attempt suicide
Do not really want to die but are crying for help
30. Some situations that might lead to suicidal thoughts and/or behavior include
Loss of relationship, drug use, unplanned pregnancy
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. / “I” message / d. / aggressive communicationb. / accepting yourself / e. / self-concept
c. / self-talk
C___ 31. saying things to yourself
_A___ 32. a good technique for communicating assertively
_D___ 33. hostile and unfriendly in expression
_E___ 34. a measure of how you view yourself
_B___ 35. an important way to improve self-esteem
Chapter 6, 7, & 8
36. What statement best describes how diet can influence health
In order to optimize health a person must take right amount of nutrients and energy
37. The carbohydrate that circulates in your blood and provides energy for your cells is a
A single sugar called glucose
38. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Guidelines to improve health, intended to reduce nutrition related diseases, review and use recommendations from others.
39. Parents can help children meet their nutritional needs by
Follow food guide pyramid to accommodate nutritional needs of child.
40. Teens’ diets
Tend to be low in calcium, iron, riboflavin
Matching 1
a. / heredityb. / body composition
c. / bulimia nervosa
d. / basal metabolic rate
e. / overweight
f. / anorexia nervosa
g. / obesity
h. / weight management
_B___ 41. the proportion of body weight that is made up of fat tissue compared to lean tissue
_C___ 42. an eating disorder based on a cycle of bingeing and purging food
_E___ 43. being heavy for one’s height
_F___ 44. an eating disorder in which the person refuses to eat because of a fear of weight gain
_h___ 45. sensible eating and exercising habits to keep healthy
_G__ 46. weighing 20 percent more than one’s recommended weight
_A___ 47. the passing down of traits from parent to child
_D___ 48. the minimum amount of energy required to keep body alive when in a rested state
Matching 2
a. / protein / e. / vitaminsb. / carbohydrate / f. / water
c. / fat / g. / nutrition
d. / minerals / h. / fiber
_ -G___ 49. the science or study of the ways in which the body uses food
__F__ 50. carries nutrients to cells, helps regulate body temperature
___E_ 51. keys that turn on many chemical reactions in body
___D_ 52. helps regulate chemical reactions: 5% of body weight
__H_ 53. complex carbohydrate that helps with digestion
__A__ 54. builds and repairs all body tissues; made of amino acids
__C__ 55. the body’s quick energy reserve
__B__ 56. energy giving nutrient which includes sugars and starches
Chapter 9 - 12
57. Drugs can enter your body
Injection, ingestion, Transdermal
58. Prescriptions are required for some drugs because
Doctors must approve strengths, illness and amounts of drugs .
59. Problems that can occur as a result of drug use include
Allergic reactions, side effects, drug interactions
60. Alcohol is considered a drug because
Cause a change in a person’s physical and emotional state
61. Which of the following is a negative effect that alcohol can have on a family?
Violence, unpredictable behavior, children being neglected
62. Some teens are lured into drinking alcohol because
Peer pressure, wish to mask emotional pain, thinks alcohol will improve image
63. Which of the following is a controllable risk factor for alcoholism?
Age drinking begins
64. Benefits of being tobacco-free are that
Avoid high risk disease, no addictions, save lots of money
65. The changes in the brain seen in marijuana users are similar to those seen in
Long term alcohol users
66. In men, anabolic steroids cause
Shutdown of normal testerone production
67. Flashbacks are one of the dangerous side effects associated with
LSD
68. One of the serious dangers of heroin is
It’s highly addictive
69. The best way to avoid drugs is to
Stay away from people who use drugs and places
where drugs are used.
Diseases and Disorders
70. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
Flu
71. What is the body’s last and most complicated line of defense against infection?
Immune system
72. Heart attack, atherosclerosis, stroke, and high blood pressure are all different kinds of
Type 1 diabetes
73. Hereditary diseases
Caused by abnormal chromosomes, inherited from parents, may involve single gene or more or a chromosome
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. / communicable diseaseb. / bacteria
c. / virus
d. / vaccine
e. / white blood cells
_B__ 74. a single-celled organism that can cause disease.
__C_ 75. the smallest pathogens
_A__ 76. a disease that is usually passed from one person to another
_D__ 77. an injected substance that causes you to become immune to a disease
_E__ 78. cells in the blood whose primary job is to defend the body against disease
a. / lifestyle diseaseb. / high blood pressure
c. / benign tumor
d. / smoking
e. / cancer
Match each item with the correct statement.
__E_ 79. disease caused by uncontrolled cell growth
__D_ 80. a risk factor that increases an individual’s chances of developing cardiovascular disease
__A_ 81. a disease that is caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors
__C_ 82. abnormal but usually harmless mass of cells
__B_ 83. a condition in which there is a higher than normal amount of stress on the walls of the blood vessels
Ch. 18-21 - Human Growth and Development
84. When a sperm joins with an egg, it is called
FERTILIZATION
85. The STD that is growing at the fastest rate in U.S. 15-to-19-year-olds is
GONORRHEA
86. You can decrease your chances of getting an STD by
PRACTICE SEXUAL ABSTINENCE, LEARN ABOUT STD’s, NOT USE ALCOHOL OR DRUGS
87. Which of the following best describes AIDS?
DISEASE THAT IS DUE TO A WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEM
88. Which of the following areas of the world have the greatest number of people living with HIV/AIDS?
AFRICA, ASIA, EASTERN EUROPE
89. Which of the following are the primary targets of HIV?
HELPER T CELLS
90. Which activity below puts a teen at risk for contracting the HIV virus?
BEFRIENDING AND SOCIALIZING WITH A PERSON
WHO IS HIV Positive
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. / Menstruationb. / Ovaries
c. / fallopian tube
d. / Estrogen
e. / Uterus
_D__ 91. a hormone produced by the ovary
_C__ 92. the female organ that transports an egg from the ovary to the uterus
_B__ 93. female reproductive structures that produce eggs
_E__ 94. the hollow muscular organ that provides a place for the baby to grow before birth; also called the womb
_A__ 95. the breakdown and discharge of the uterine lining out of the vagina
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. / hepatitisb. / gonorrhea
c. / syphilis
d. / chlamydia
e. / HPV
__B_ 96. caused by bacteria that attack genital mucous membranes
__A 97. an inflammation of the liver
__C_ 98. a chronic, infectious, sexually transmitted disease that is characterized by a chancre during the initial phase
__E_ 99. can cause genital warts and cervical cancer
__D_ 100. bacterial STD that affects the reproductive tract and is most common in teens