September 13th, 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. What can parents sometimes pass to their children?






2. What also plays a role in your health?






3. What is your environment?






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. Besides heredity, what also plays a role in your health, and what is it that makes up the world around you?

2. How can a person's environment affect their health in a negative way?

3. What is a positive factor, in a person's environment, that can affect their emotional health?

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 who would be the most important factor in a person's overall health, and why that is.

2. Explain, by giving examples, the things that are known factors that figure into your health.

3. Explain what the first step toward achieving good health is.

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