September 12th, 2018 The Odyssey by: Homer

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Factors that influence health.

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Level#1

Many things affect your health. Heredity is one important factor. Heredity is the passing of certain traits from parents to their children. Healthy, long-living parents often have healthy long-living children. But sometimes parents can pass harmful traits, such as disease, to their children. The environment also plays a role in your health. Your environment is everything that makes up the world around you.

1. May things can affect your health, what is one of them?






2. What is heredity?





3. What do healthy, long-living parents often have?







Level#2

Many things affect your health. Heredity is one important factor. Heredity is the passing of certain traits from parents to their children. Healthy, long-living parents often have healthy long-living children. But sometimes parents can pass harmful traits, such as disease, to their children. The environment also plays a role in your health. Your environment is everything that makes up the world around you. A person who lives in a smoke-filled environment day after day is more likely to get lung disease. A person who lives with someone who loves him or her is more likely to have good emotional health.

1. What can affect your health, and give an example of one important factor?






2. What is heredity, and give a positive example of how it can impact a person?






3. How can heredity have a negative impact on a person?








Level#3

Many things affect your health. Heredity is one important factor. Heredity is the passing of certain traits from parents to their children. Healthy, long-living parents often have healthy long-living children. But sometimes parents can pass harmful traits, such as disease, to their children. The environment also plays a role in your health. Your environment is everything that makes up the world around you. A person who lives in a smoke-filled environment day after day is more likely to get lung disease. A person who lives with someone who loves him or her is more likely to have good emotional health. You are the most important factor in your overall health. You make choices about your health all the time. Eating and exercising, drug use and smoking--all of these things figure into your health. The first step toward achieving good health is taking responsibility for your health.

1. Explain what can affect your health, give an example of an important factor, and explain what that factor is.






2. Explain how heredity can affect your health by giving one positive example, and one negative example.

3. Give an example of how a person's environment can affect their health negatively, and another of how it can affect them positively.

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