Prenatal Health Hazards Relay – KEY
Instructions: Have students divide up into teams and from a line. Place a set of questions and
pencil for each team at the end of where the students will need to race to. A member from each
team will race down to the end write the answer to any questions and run back. (They must leave
the pencil there or they will have to return to leave the pencil.) They must run back to their team
and then a another team members runs down to the end and answers a question. This continues
until the a team completes the set of questions first. They are the winners.
*Some of the questions could have more than one answer.
1. Name one problem a baby born to a smoker may have?
Low birth weight, premature, respiratory problems
2. What time during pregnancy is it safe for a woman to take drugs?
Never
3. Name one drug a woman should avoid during pregnancy.
4. What is the birth defect called in which babies born to alcoholic mothers.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
5. When a mother smokes a babies heart beats faster because of lack of ____Air_____.
6. What is another name for German Measles?
Rubella
7. How long must a woman wait to get pregnancy who has been immunized for German measles?
3
8. What substances is present in the blood of 85% of the population?
RH+
9. If a woman is Rh-, what must her husband be to pose a threat to the fetus.
10. The body’s way of expelling the embryo or fetus before it can fully develop is called
___Miscarriage___.
11. What condition includes high blood pressure, swollen hands/feet, face and rapid weight gain.
Toxemia
12. Generally what causes toxemia?
Malnutrition
13. The effects of this disease cause nerve spasms and later in life difficulty with walking and
speech.
Cerebral Palsy
14. What should be avoided at the dentist office during pregnancy?
X-rays
15. Name on signal of a miscarriage.
Bleeding, Cramps
16. Where is a woman generally advised to stay if she thinks she may have a miscarriage?
Bed
Prenatal Health Hazards Relay
*Some of the questions could have more than one answer.
1. Name one problem a baby born to a smoker may have?
2. What time during pregnancy is it safe for a woman to take drugs?
3. Name one drug a woman should avoid during pregnancy.
4. What is the birth defect called in which babies born to alcoholic mothers.
5. When a mother smokes a babies heart beats faster because of lack of
______________.
6. What is another name for German Measles?
7. How long must a woman wait to get pregnancy who has been immunized for
German measles?
8. What substances is present in the blood of 85% of the population?
9. If a woman is Rh-, what must her husband be to pose a threat to the fetus.
10. The body’s way of expelling the embryo or fetus before it can fully develop
is called _________________________.
11. What condition includes high blood pressure, swollen hands/feet, face and
rapid weight gain.
12. Generally what causes toxemia?
13. The effects of this disease cause nerve spasms and later in life difficulty
with walking and speech.
14. What should be avoided at the dentist office during pregnancy?
15. Name on signal of a miscarriage.
16. Where is a woman generally advised to stay if she thinks she may have a
miscarriage?