FTCE HEALTH K-12 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
A kid collapses in gym, is unresponsive, start CPR but
what should you do first? - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Check
pulse
Grasping at throat, what do you do? - .....ANSWER .....
✔✔Ask if they are choking and start doing
abdominal thrusts (heimlich manuever)
Healing the body by applying pressure to someone's
hands and feet - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔reflexology
What drug produces drowsiness, nausea and
hallucinations? - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Inhalents
Barbiturates (sleep inducing) side effects are closely like
what other drug? - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Alcohol
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MDMA- goes into effect 30-45 after taking it and lasts
3-6 hours - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Ecstacy
causes drowsiness and amnesia, date rape, slurred
speech - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Rohypnol (Roofie)
Testosterone is produced in what are (diagram) -
.....ANSWER ..... ✔✔testies
Where in the digestive system is the most food
absorbed by the body (diagram) - .....ANSWER .....
✔✔small intestine
What agency regulates dangerous pesticides? -
.....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Environmental protection agency
If a person eats 100 calories extra per day how many
pounds will they gain in a year? - .....ANSWER .....
✔✔10.4
If a person eats 250 calories less and burns 250
calories more a day, how many pounds will they lose in
1 week? - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔1
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Consumption of alcohol makes you feel warm. What
causes this to happen? - .....ANSWER .....
✔✔Vasodilation (the widening of blood vessels)
Average of menarche (first occurrence of menstruation)
in girls is? - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔12.77 years old
Premenopause - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Ovaries make
less estrogen, starts in 40s sometimes in 30s
menopause - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔ovaries stop
producing estrogen, diagnosed after 12 months with no
menstrual cycle. average age is 51
dysmenorrhea - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔painful
menstruation
endometrium - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔inner, mucous
membrane lining of the uterus
latrogenic - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔illness caused by
medical examination or treatment
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menorrhagia - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔excessive
bleeding during menstruation
metrorrhagia - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔Bleeding between
menstrual periods
menometrorrhagia - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔rapid flow
of blood from the uterus at menstruation (and between
menstrual cycles; increased amount)
polymenorrhea - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔the occurrence
of menstrual cycles more frequently than is normal (21
days or fewer in between)
oligomenorrhea - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔greater than
35 days between menstrual cycles
amenorrhea - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔absence of
menstruation
fetal alcohol syndrome - .....ANSWER ..... ✔✔physical
and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a