7th Grade Health Exam Review

Vocabulary review for 7th grade health covering mental health, communication, heredity, and disease prevention.

Types of communication

Verbal, Nonverbal, and Written.

Signs of depression or suicide

Feeling sad all the time, losing interest in activities, and talking about death or hopelessness.

Suicide intervention

Telling a trusted adult right away and taking all remarks about suicide seriously.

School resources for depression

A counselor, teacher, principal, or another trusted adult at school.

Fight-or-flight response

The name for the body's response to stress.

Coping skills

Healthy ways to deal with stress and difficult situations.

Decision-making process steps

Identifying the problem, considering options, evaluating consequences, making a decision, taking action, and reviewing the outcome.

Inherited

A trait passed down from parents, such as eye color.

Genes

Units of heredity that carry traits from parents to their children.

The Health Triangle

The three sides consisting of physical health, mental and emotional health, and social health.

Average teen sleep requirement

$8$ to $10$ hours of sleep each night.

Benefits of proper sleep

Helps improve focus, mood, and energy.

Transmission through the air

How diseases spread when someone coughs or sneezes.

Indirect contact

Transmission of disease by touching contaminated objects.

Person-to-person contact

Transmission of disease through interactions like shaking hands.

Handwashing duration

Washing hands for at least $20\,\text{seconds}$.

Life-threatening

Something that is serious enough to cause death.

Ways to protect against communicable diseases

Washing hands, getting vaccinated, and avoiding contact with sick people.

Healthy relationship words

Trust, Responsible, Love, and Happiness.

Crisis line

A phone or text service that helps people during emergencies or emotional crises.