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Note Taking

Chapter 1 Understanding Health and Wellness

Chapter 1
Lesson 2 What Affects Your Health?
Directions: Use the following outline to help organize your notes as you read through the lesson.
Key Concept Consider and Reconsider Before reading the lesson, write
down a list of items that influence your health. Consider
where you live, the food you eat, and the people you socialize
with. After you have finished reading the lesson, identify an
influence on your health that you had not previously consid-
ered and how this influence affects you.

Before Reading After Reading

Write a vocabulary word to answer each question.

New and Academic
1. Which term means the collective beliefs, customs, and
Vocabulary
behaviors of a group?

heredity
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2. Which term refers to media-producing devices such as

adequate
radio, television, and the Internet?

environment
3. Which term describes the people in your age group?
peers

culture
4. Which term means sufficient or satisfactory?

media
5. Which term means the sum of your surroundings?

6. Which term means all the traits that were biologically

passed on to you from your parents?

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Influences on Your List the influences on your health.

Health
I found this information
Chapter 1

on page(s) .

Identify one way that you can exercise control over heredity
and the effects it has on your health.

Describe each component of your environment and how each

can affect your health.

Environment

Understanding Your Name some sources of media that can influence your health

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Influences behaviors.
I found this information
on page(s) .

Explain how you can take control of your health.

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