8th Grade ATOD Study Guide Question and answers correctly solved 2024/2025
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8th Grade ATOD Study Guide Question and answers correctly solved 2024/2025 8th Grade ATOD Study Guide, Health Study Guide Unit 3 (ATOD)
What category of drugs does alcohol belong to? - correct answer Depressants
List the short-term effects of alcohol. - correct answer Dulled senses, blur...
8th Grade ATOD Study Guide, Health
Study Guide Unit 3 (ATOD)
What category of drugs does alcohol belong to? - correct answer
✔Depressants
List the short-term effects of alcohol. - correct answer ✔Dulled senses,
blurred vision, reaction time and coordination slowed, trouble controlling
speech, vomiting, judgement and decision-making skills impaired, blackout
List the long-term effects of alcohol. - correct answer ✔Lowered immunity,
stomach ulcers, cancer, harms the pancreas, cirrhosis, cardiovascular
disease, fetal alcohol syndrome
What organ does cirrhosis destroy? - correct answer ✔Liver
The amount of alcohol in a person's blood is known as what? - correct
answer ✔Blood alcohol concentration
Physical and mental birth defects that result from a woman drinking during
pregnancy is known as what? - correct answer ✔Fetal alcohol syndrome
A disease in which there is a dependence on alcohol is known as what? -
correct answer ✔Alcoholism
A self-help treatment group for alcoholics is known as what? - correct answer
✔Alcoholics Anonymous
, A period in which a person cannot remember what has happened is known as
what? - correct answer ✔Blackout
How many chemicals are in one cigarette? - correct answer ✔4000
What is the addictive substance in tobacco? What category of drugs does it
fall into? - correct answer ✔Nicotine; stimulants
Hair-like structures in the respiratory tract that trap dust and other particles as
known as what? - correct answer ✔Cilia
What is the thick dark liquid that forms when tobacco burns? What does it do
to the cilia? - correct answer ✔Tar; paralyzes them
What is the colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is produced when
tobacco burns? - correct answer ✔Carbon monoxide
Which disease linked to smoking involves abnormal cells dividing in an
uncontrolled manner? What is the most common form and often most difficult
to treat? - correct answer ✔Cancer; lung
Smoking can lead to diseases of the heart and blood vessels which is also
known as what? - correct answer ✔Cardiovascular disease
Which disease linked to smoking causes the bronchial tubes to fill up with
mucus and makes the person have to cough constantly to get rid of the
mucus? - correct answer ✔Chronic bronchitis
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