Healthy Lifestyle Choices & Risky Behaviour is one of 9 topics in the Grade 11 Life Orientation CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. A healthy and balanced lifestyle involves maintaining wellbeing across which dimensions, according to this lesson?
Physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual health
Only physical fitness and nothing else
Only academic performance
Only financial stability
Answer: Physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual health — A healthy and balanced lifestyle involves physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual health, all interconnected dimensions of overall wellbeing.
Easy
2. Spiritual health, as described in this lesson, involves:
A sense of meaning, purpose and connection to something beyond oneself
Only formal religious practice
Physical exercise only
A synonym for emotional health
Answer: A sense of meaning, purpose and connection to something beyond oneself — Spiritual health need not be tied to a specific religion; it involves a sense of meaning, purpose and connection to something beyond oneself, through faith, values, nature, or community.
Medium
3. Name ONE dimension of health, other than physical or spiritual, described in this lesson.
Answer: Psychological — The dimensions of a healthy, balanced lifestyle described are physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual health.
