UT High School Health 1 Final Exam
Review Questions and All Correct
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
What are the 6 areas of health? - Answer 1. physical
2. social
3. emotional
4. spiritual
5. environmental
6. mental
What is physical health? - Answer the way in which the body works
What is emotional health? - Answer ability to express emotions in a healthy manner
What is social health? - Answer relationship with others
What is mental health? - Answer ability to handle the everyday stress and demands of daily
life
What is spiritual health? - Answer relationship that you have with a power that is bigger than
yourself
What is environmental health? - Answer relationship with the world around you
What influences your health? - Answer heredity, environment, family, friends, culture, media
What is heredity? - Answer the passing of traits from biological parents to children
Examples of inherited traits - Answer - skin color
- eye color
,What is a risk behavior? - Answer actions or choices that may harm you or others
What is a cumulative risk? - Answer related risks that increase in effect with each added risk
What does subjective mean? - Answer comes from person's own views and beliefs
What does objective mean? - Answer based on facts
What is a good method for solving disagreements? - Answer cooperative problem solving
What are the 4 types of influences on health? - Answer heredity, cultural, environmental,
social
What are the two categories of defense responses in the immune system? - Answer innate
immune response and adaptive immune response
5 areas of non-specific immune responses - Answer - skin and mucous membranes
- inflammatory response
- temperature
- proteins
- white blood cells
Why is a rise in temperature a good defense for the body? - Answer as temp. increases,
growth of organisms decrease causing body to fight off infections
List the two specific immune responses - Answer humoral immunity and cell-mediated
immunity
What is an antigen? - Answer stimulates the production of an antibody
What scientist first introduced the idea of immunizations? - Answer Edward Jenner
, List three types of autoimmune disorders - Answer Lupus, Junior Rheumatoid Arthritis,
Scleroderma
What is another name for white blood cells? - Answer leukocytes
List two types of leukocytes, and explain what they do - Answer Phagocytes(chew up
invading organisms), Lymphocytes(allow body to remember, recognize, and destroy invaders)
List three types of immunity - Answer innate, adaptive, passive
List main components of the immune system - Answer adenoid, tonsil, thymus, spleen, bone
marrow, lymph nodes
Chicken Pox - Answer Definition: contagious viral infection caused by varicella-zoster virus
Method of Spread: direct contact with infected person/airborne transmission
Symptoms: rash, fever, fatigue, and headache
Onset of symptoms: 10-21 days after exposure
Complications: bacterial skin infection, pneumonia, encephalitis, and reactivation of virus
Fifth Disease - Answer Definition: viral infection caused by parvovirus B19
Method of Spread: respiratory droplets, blood transfusion, or organ transplants from infected
person
Symptoms: low-grade fever, "slapped face" rash, rash on body
Onset of symptoms: 1-4 days after onset of rash
Complications: joint pain, anemia, complications for pregnant women and individuals with
weakened immune system
Hepatitis A - Answer Definition: viral infection caused by hepatitis A virus
Method of Spread: personal contact with infected person, ingesting food/water contaminated
with fecal matter with virus
Symptoms: fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, jaundice, and dark urine
Onset of symptoms: 15-50 days after exposure
Complications: liver failure, acute liver inflammation, complications for those with pre-existing
Review Questions and All Correct
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
What are the 6 areas of health? - Answer 1. physical
2. social
3. emotional
4. spiritual
5. environmental
6. mental
What is physical health? - Answer the way in which the body works
What is emotional health? - Answer ability to express emotions in a healthy manner
What is social health? - Answer relationship with others
What is mental health? - Answer ability to handle the everyday stress and demands of daily
life
What is spiritual health? - Answer relationship that you have with a power that is bigger than
yourself
What is environmental health? - Answer relationship with the world around you
What influences your health? - Answer heredity, environment, family, friends, culture, media
What is heredity? - Answer the passing of traits from biological parents to children
Examples of inherited traits - Answer - skin color
- eye color
,What is a risk behavior? - Answer actions or choices that may harm you or others
What is a cumulative risk? - Answer related risks that increase in effect with each added risk
What does subjective mean? - Answer comes from person's own views and beliefs
What does objective mean? - Answer based on facts
What is a good method for solving disagreements? - Answer cooperative problem solving
What are the 4 types of influences on health? - Answer heredity, cultural, environmental,
social
What are the two categories of defense responses in the immune system? - Answer innate
immune response and adaptive immune response
5 areas of non-specific immune responses - Answer - skin and mucous membranes
- inflammatory response
- temperature
- proteins
- white blood cells
Why is a rise in temperature a good defense for the body? - Answer as temp. increases,
growth of organisms decrease causing body to fight off infections
List the two specific immune responses - Answer humoral immunity and cell-mediated
immunity
What is an antigen? - Answer stimulates the production of an antibody
What scientist first introduced the idea of immunizations? - Answer Edward Jenner
, List three types of autoimmune disorders - Answer Lupus, Junior Rheumatoid Arthritis,
Scleroderma
What is another name for white blood cells? - Answer leukocytes
List two types of leukocytes, and explain what they do - Answer Phagocytes(chew up
invading organisms), Lymphocytes(allow body to remember, recognize, and destroy invaders)
List three types of immunity - Answer innate, adaptive, passive
List main components of the immune system - Answer adenoid, tonsil, thymus, spleen, bone
marrow, lymph nodes
Chicken Pox - Answer Definition: contagious viral infection caused by varicella-zoster virus
Method of Spread: direct contact with infected person/airborne transmission
Symptoms: rash, fever, fatigue, and headache
Onset of symptoms: 10-21 days after exposure
Complications: bacterial skin infection, pneumonia, encephalitis, and reactivation of virus
Fifth Disease - Answer Definition: viral infection caused by parvovirus B19
Method of Spread: respiratory droplets, blood transfusion, or organ transplants from infected
person
Symptoms: low-grade fever, "slapped face" rash, rash on body
Onset of symptoms: 1-4 days after onset of rash
Complications: joint pain, anemia, complications for pregnant women and individuals with
weakened immune system
Hepatitis A - Answer Definition: viral infection caused by hepatitis A virus
Method of Spread: personal contact with infected person, ingesting food/water contaminated
with fecal matter with virus
Symptoms: fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, jaundice, and dark urine
Onset of symptoms: 15-50 days after exposure
Complications: liver failure, acute liver inflammation, complications for those with pre-existing
