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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The development of aneurysms is not fully understood - although there seems to be a relationship between aneurysms and ______________.
Hypertension
Bias
Love
Lower
2. The ozone layer is a layer of triatomic oxygen that surrounds the Earth and filters much of the sun's _________ before it can reach the Earth's surface.
Chronic
Type 1
Incubation
Radiation
3. Direct transmission methods are observed in human-to-human transmission. These include contact between body surfaces such as touching - kissing - and sexual intercourse; ________ spread - which is inhalation of contaminated air droplets; and fecal-or
Droplet
Herpes
Low-density
Helper T
4. About ___% of all bodies are placed in ground burial.
Midlife
Cardiovascular
Different
75
5. Energy production requires that oxygen and nutrients be delivered by the _____________ system to the muscles.
Saliva
Dilate
Employment
Circulatory
6. More than _____ of our body weight comes from water.
Exhaustion
Half
Parents
Physical
7. Now - nearly 1 in __ women will develop breast cancer.
Preference
Chiropractic
Smokeless
8
8. Severe - prolonged ________ can result in a number of physical health problems.
Employment
Exit
Distress
Carcinogenic
9. Amniocentesis is also referred to as an _________ _______ test because it involves using a needle to extract some of the fluid from the amniotic sac.
Amniotic fluid
Asprin
Sigmund Freud
Most important
10. Usually - people have positive feelings about their employment situation if their jobs provide both _________ rewards such as adequate salary and benefits and internal rewards such as positive social interactions and the opportunity for creative inpu
External
Suicide
Genital warts
Caffeine
11. Babies with fetal tobacco syndrome may have facial abnormities - _______ retardation - heart defects - and a host of other problems.
Mental
Digestion
Interests
Learned
12. In men - _________ ___________ is the inability to achieve an erection.
Erectile dysfunction
Binge drinking
Rectum
Ethics of sexuality. :
13. ICSH (interstitial cell-stimulating hormone) stimulates specific cells within the testes to begin producing the male sex hormone ______________.
Selye
Testosterone
Maintain
Mental
14. An aneurysm is a ballooning or outpouching on a weakened area of an ______.
Social
Artery
Frequency
Kubler-Ross
15. Mono is a viral infection in which the body produces an excess number of mononuclear ___________ (a type of white blood cell).
Congestive
Pregnant
Leukocytes
Drinking water
16. The nervous system is made up of all of the nerve tissues in the body. It is broken down into the central nervous system (CNS) and the ___________ nervous system.
Peripheral
Damage
Needs
Crypts
17. Approximately 85% of all __________ tumors are classified as carcinomas.
Malignant
Death
Type
Genetically
18. Siblings - the media - and the __________ also play important roles in gender development.
Unity
Community
Health
Male
19. Saturated fats - including those found in animal sources and in vegetable oils to which _________ has been added - becoming trans-fatty acids - need to be carefully limited in a modern healthy diet.
Hydrogen
Religious
Sweat
Suicide
20. ___________ effects can often be reduced by choosing responsible health behaviors.
Second
Womb
Opiates
Hereditary
21. Kubler-Ross describes the depression stage as one without much ________.
Breathing
Danger
Feeling
Fat-free
22. People are labeled '___________' if their weight is between 1% and 19% above their desirable weight.
Eyes
Genital warts
Overweight
Global warming
23. Research shows that within __ years of smoking cessation - the risk of heart disease is almost the same as for someone who never smoked.
3
Four
Liver
Not available
24. When they reach age 65 - some of their health care expenses are covered by Medicare. Regardless of their age - people who require _______ dialysis or transplants are covered by Medicare.
Circulatory
Nine
Autonomic
Kidney
25. Spiritual health includes one's ______ - ethics - intrinsic values and beliefs.
Vascular
Cardiovascular
Goals
Morals
26. In addition to the living will - the durable power of attorney for health care is another important _______ medical directive that can assist terminally ill or incapacitated patients.
Intrinsic
Advance
Dehydration
Risk factor
27. Radon gas is a naturally occurring ___________ gas produced by the decay of uranium.
Hypertension
Fetus
Family
Radioactive
28. Communities with sewage treatment systems designed around a combined sanitary and ______ system can - during heavy rain or snowmelt - allow untreated sewage to rush through the processing plant.
Perceptions
Storm
Amino acids
Isotonic
29. ___________ injuries are injuries that are committed on purpose.
Paraphilia
Homicide
Intentional
10
30. In insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus - or ______ diabetes - the body produces little or no insulin.
Diabetes
Type 1
Crowd
Domestic
31. One example of an unhealthy relationship is ___________ behavior - when one partner attempts to manage the daily activities of the other partner.
Premium
Controlling
Indian
Heterosexuality
32. As soon as you recognize a ________ - your body reacts. This quick physical warning is the alarm stage or the 'fight or flight' response.
Reverse
Stressor
Nicotine
Light weights
33. Tests conducted on homes in various parts of the country suggest that 20% of all homes have higher than normal levels and ___% have dangerously high levels.
Majority
Social
150 -000
10
34. The most vulnerable female victims are African-American and __________ - live in large cities - are young and unmarried - and are from lower socioeconomic groups.
Thought
Hispanics
Girth
Waste
35. Set point is a ___________ programmed range of body weight beyond which a person finds it difficult to gain or lose additional weight.
Transferred
Genetically
Social
Excitement
36. Although it actually means any close - mutual - verbal or nonverbal ________ within a relationship - when most people hear the word intimacy - they think about shared touching - kissing - and even intercourse.
Behavior
Mononucleosis
Cohesiveness
Action
37. ______ is really a family of more than 50 viruses - some of which produce recognized diseases in humans (chicken pox - shingles - mononucleosis and others).
Vascular
Hydrocarbons
Immunizations
Herpes
38. The name systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) reflects the widespread destruction of fibrous connective tissues and the appearance of a reddish _____ that imparts a characteristic 'mask' to the face.
Not available
Immunity
Emphysema
Rash
39. An addiction can begin after a person is ________ to a drug or a behavior that he or she finds pleasurable.
Full
Exposed
Heterosexual
Stress
40. Psychoactive drugs cause intoxication - altering a persons feelings - behavior - ___________ and moods.
Indirect
22.5
Perceptions
Ethics of sexuality. :
41. Power plants that use water from lakes and rivers to cool their stream turbines cause _______ pollution.
Energy
Cervix
Stress
Thermal
42. ___ are health care delivery plans under which health care providers agree to meet the covered medical needs of subscribers for a prepaid amount of money.
Bladder
HMOs
Extremities
Crowd
43. Prolonged periods of silence or _______ are normal components of the depression stage.
Global warming
Cardiovascular
Crying
Type 1
44. Cannabis - or marijuana - has been labeled a mild ____________ for a number of years - and some experts now consider it to be a drug category in itself.
Cardiovascular
Self-concept
Synergistic
Hallucinogen
45. Stroke is a general term of a wide variety of crises that result from _____ _____ damage in the brain.
Bisexuals
Exercise
Abortion
Blood vessel
46. Lung cancer is one of the most lethal forms of cancer that is frequently _________.
Breasts
Dehydration
Bread
Diagnosed
47. Immunotherapy refers to the use of a variety of substances to trigger a person's own immune system to attack cancer cells or prevent cancer cells from becoming _________.
Sperm
Droplet
Sleep
Activated
48. Exercise is a good defense against stress. Increasing ________ activity stimulates the release of endorphins.
Plateau
Physical
Laxatives
Coronary heart
49. Sexuality experts prefer to view intimate behavior as sharing deep feelings and experiences with a partner or sharing profound physical __________ with a partner.
Hypertension
Death
Physically
Pleasures
50. The __________ Theory of Aging states that aging occurs as a result of a gradual decline in the body's autoimmune system.
Low
1.5
Withhold
Autoimmune
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