Infectious and Non Infectious Diseases

1.

Multiple Choice

1 min

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What is the job of the immune system?

To protect your body from drugs and medicine

To protect your body from air and water

To protect your body from pathogens

To protect your body from itself

2.

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1 min

1 pt

True or False?
The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissue, and organs that work together to protect the body

True

False

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

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Pathoges are

disease causing microorganisms

agents that caused diseases

causes of illness

all of these

4.

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Different groups of agents that caused diseases are

bacteria

viruses

protozoans

all of these

5.

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Agents that cause infectious diseases can be transmitted in many ways like

through the air

through contaminated water

through body fluids

all of the above

6.

Multiple Choice

1 min

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What is one of the ways that antibiotics work?

They can stop bacteria from reproducing

They can stop viruses from reproducing

They stop toxins from poisoning the tissues of hosts

They engulf the pathogens

7.

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What sort of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

A bacterium

A virus

A fungus

A protist

8.

Multiple Choice

1 min

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Disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium or fungus.

antigen

prion

pathogen

allergen

9.

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What is one MAJOR organ of the Immune System?

Spinal Cord

Brain

Skin

Heart

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

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Bacteria can only be spread through coughing

False

True

11.

Multiple Choice

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An organism that lives on or in a host and causes it harm is called

a host

a parasite

a cell

a virus

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

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The blood cells that fight pathogens.

Leukocytes

Red blood cells

Plasma

Hemoglobin

13.

Multiple Choice

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A protein made by white blood cells to fight a specific pathogen.

Antibody

Antivirus

Allegra

Allotment

14.

Multiple Choice

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the body's response to an infection by showing redness, swelling, & pain

immunization

mobilization (stage of infection)

inflammation

15.

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Which of the following is an effective method of preventing infection by Malaria?

Use pesticides to kill the mosquito (vector)

Quarantine the mosquitos that carry the parasite

Provide condoms to prevent transmission of parasite during sex

Drink plenty of water

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

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A host is:

An organism that harbors a pathogen

Grant Denyer on Family Feud

An animal that transmits a pathogen

A microorganism that has been transmitted

17.

Multiple Choice

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Leukocytes include a wide range of different white blood cells. Which of the following are responsible for destroying cancerous cells?

Neutrophils

Eosinophils

Natural Killer Cells

Macrophages

18.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which of the following cells can become "memory" cells?

A cells

B cells

C cells

D cells

19.

Multiple Choice

20 sec

1 pt

Which of the following disease is NOT caused by a virus?

Tetanus

Flu

Common Cold

Measles

20.

Multiple Choice

20 sec

1 pt

Which of the following is a substance usually prepared from killed or weaken pathogens?

White blood Cells

Antibodies

Lymph

Vaccines

21.

Multiple Choice

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What is one way a pathogen can enter the body?

Nose

Mouth

Broken Skin

All of the Aove

22.

Multiple Choice

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Contagious, disfiguring and often deadly disease that has affected humans for thousands of years. Eradicated worldwide by 1980.

Smallpox

Anthrax

Plague

Ricin

23.

Multiple Choice

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What viral diseases are transmitted by a mosquitoes bite.

HIV

Malaria

Pneumonia

Rabies

24.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What its the definition of a prevention?

anything that make me sick.

changes of sign our body give us about something wrong

medications

measures that we can take to avoid get sick.

25.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

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What its the best way to avoid any disease.

visit doctor frequently

take medicine

prevention

be alone

26.

Multiple Choice

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Can pathogens survive outside a person's body?

Yes

No

27.

Multiple Choice

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What are noninfectious diseases?

Diseases that are not caused by pathogens

The ability to destroy pathogens before they cause you to be sick

Diseases that are caused by pathogens

Diseases that can be transfered from one person to another

28.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

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Heredity, and environment contribute to which type of diseases.....

infectious

flu

contagious

noninfectious

29.

Multiple Choice

3 mins

1 pt

Which disease is a non-infectious disease?

Diabetes

Influenza

AIDS

Chickenpox

30.

Multiple Select

5 mins

1 pt

Which of the following are noninfectious diseases? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY!!

cancer

diabetes

Lyme disease

allergies

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