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Health Vocab Review

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  • True or false: You should eat five times a day.
    True
  • True or false: Regular contact with your friends is good for your health.
    True
  • How can you prevent risk when riding a bike?
    Wearing a helmet and protective clothing, obeying road rules to prevent accidents, staying alert
  • True or false: When someone faints, you should lay them down flat.
    False: you should lay them down with their feet raised.
  • What do we call the process of cleaning water before we can drink it?
    Purification
  • True or false: You should sleep between six and eight hours every night.
    False: You should sleep between eight and ten hours every night.
  • True or false: Doing physical exercise makes your body weak.
    False: strong
  • What can you use to protect yourself from the sun?
    Sun cream, clothing, hats, etc.
  • Name two medical advances that improve our health.
    Vaccinations, medicines, diagnostic techniques, surgical techniques
  • What are the two types of illnesses?
    Infectious and non-infectious.
  • How can personal characteristics affect our health? (Hint: our parents)
    Some illnesses and disorders are hereditary (we get them from our parents)
  • True or false: Drinking lots of beer contributes to a healthy lifestyle.
    False: Water
  • True or false: For burns, you should put the burnt area under cold water for ten minutes.
    True
  • Name two aspects of our environment that can affect our health.
    Lack of water or food, high air pollution, violence, low levels of education, economic difficulties
  • Name one organ that alcohol can damage.
    Stomach, brain, liver
  • Why is spending too much time on your phone bad for you?
    Can isolate you from friends and family, can prevent you from doing physical activity, can be bad for mental health
  • Name two things that can cause addiction and are harmful to our health.
    Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, technology (social media)
  • Name two ways to maintain hygiene and cleanliness.
    Wash hands before eating, brush teeth after eating, shower, wear clean clothes, keep our houses clean
  • True or false: Infectious diseases are caused by organs that aren't working properly and by the environment around us.
    False: Non-infectious diseases
  • True or false: it is easier to be healthy if you live in a country that has a good healthcare system.
    True.
  • What do we call the immediate treatment that's given to someone when they get hurt?
    First aid
  • Name two micro-organisms that can cause infectious diseases.
    Viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa
  • Name one disease that tobacco can cause.
    Lung cancer, heart disease
  • What is the purpose of the expiry date on food labels?
    To tell us that eating the food after that date could make us sick.
  • What is the first thing you should do to treat an insect sting?
    Remove the stinger.
  • When using headphones to listen to music, should the music be loud or soft?
    Soft, to protect your hearing