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Overview: The short response activities in the webtext throughout this course are designed to show your understanding of key concepts as you engage with course content.

Prompt: During the first week of the course, you will respond to several questions in the webtext as you complete each learning block. At the end of Week 1, you will review your answers to these questions and ensure that you have responded to each question. It is important that you answer each question.

Otherwise, the words no response will appear in brackets when you submit the assignment. The questions and their original locations in the webtext are listed in the table below in case you want to refer back to the reading as you edit, but you can edit your responses to all the questions directly in Theme: Exploring Social Science Issues, learning block 1-4 (page 5) before exporting to Word for submission to your instructor in the learning environmen.

Question 1 Do you have any healthy habits? What role have culture and environment played in the healthy or unhealthy habits that you have formed?

Question 2 Choose a society from the map. Within that society, characterize one of the social science principles we identified in this learning block. As a reminder, the social science principles we focus on in this course are social roles, social institutions, social norms, and beliefs and values.

Question 3 Provide an example of the environment influencing the population in an area of increased longevity. Then provide an example of the population in that area influencing its environment.

Question 4 Think about factors affecting your lifestyle in comparison to the areas of increased longevity. Characterize two social science principles in your day-to-day life. Use the two principles that you did not describe in response to the earlier question. For example, you could describe some social norms in your day-to-day life.

Question 5 From a social science perspective, what are three factors that shape your day-to-day life? For example, you could describe some factors that influence your social interactions, your access to certain foods, your day-to-day activities, the pace of life in your area, etc.

Question 6 Identify 2 social science issues related to war.

Question 7 Identify 2 social science issues related to education.

Question 8 Recall: What are the five social institutions that we are examining in this course?