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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a disease?
A condition that improves the normal functioning of cells, tissues, and organs.
A condition that only affects animals and not humans or plants.
A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms.
A direct result of physical injury.
- 2. Multiple Choice
How can diseases be classified?
By the color of the symptoms they produce.
By the age group they affect.
By whether they are infectious or non-infectious.
By the time of day they occur.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What are infectious diseases?
Diseases that cannot spread from one person to another.
Diseases that are caused by injuries.
Diseases that are caused by microorganisms and can spread from one person to another.
Diseases that only affect plants.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a symptom of a disease?
Headache.
Cough.
Strength.
Cold.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What are non-infectious diseases caused by?
Pathogens
Nutritional deficiency, gender, lifestyle factors, and age
Immune system reactions
Malfunctioning of vital organs
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a degenerative disease?
Asthma
Alzheimer's
Cholera
Hypertension
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is a common characteristic of degenerative diseases?
Increased bone weakness
Allergic reactions
Spread from person to person
Caused by pathogens
- 8. Multiple Choice
What usually triggers an allergic reaction?
Vital organ malfunction
Pathogens like bacteria and viruses
Foreign substances called allergens
Nutritional deficiency
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which condition is an example of an allergic reaction?
Osteoporosis
Asthma
Alzheimer's disease
Cataract
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is a common symptom of asthma?
Swelling of lymph nodes
Difficulty in breathing
Pale skin
Fever
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which disease is mainly caused by iodine deficiency?
Diabetes
Kwashiorkor
Goitre
Beriberi
- 12. Multiple Choice
What shape do red blood cells take in sickle cell disease?
Oval
Sickle
Round
Irregular
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a general symptom of disease?
Fever
Bruising
Difficulty in breathing
Swelling of lymph nodes
- 14. Multiple Choice
How can diseases be classified according to the text?
Diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and multicellular organisms
Diseases caused by bacteria only
Diseases caused by environmental factors
Diseases caused by lifestyle choices
- 15. Multiple Choice
If Kadirah El was was infected with what a pathogen. Which of these would it be?
viral meningitis
mononucleosis
influenza H1N1
bacterial meningitis
- 16. Multiple Choice
What are the 4 types of pathogens that could cause illness?
animals, bacteria, fungi and plants
bacteria, fungi, nucleus, parasites
bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites
bacteria, plants, fungi, parasites
- 17. Multiple Choice
Disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
pathogen
allergen
prion
antigen
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat is cancer?The heart does not receive enough blood.Sudden disruption of blood flow to part of the brain.Blood filled weak spot.Uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells.
- 19. Multiple Choice
In 1898 Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch found evidence that the cause of the highly contagious hoof-and-mouth disease in livestock was a microscopic infectious particle. It was discovered that this particle requires a host cell to reproduce.
Which pathogen is most likely responsible for causing hoof-and-mouth disease in livestock?
A bacterium, because it is contagious
A fungus, because it infects livestock
A protist, because it is microscopic
A virus, because it requires a host cell to reproduce
- 20. Multiple Choice
If you had the flu you, what pathogen has attacked your body?
bacteria
parasites
fungus
virus
- 21. Multiple Choice
The 1918 influenza epidemic killed between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide. THis epidemic happened near the end of World War I. More people died from the influenza epidemic than were killed in the war. Which of the following explains why this virus was so deadly worldwide?
Infected soldiers returning from the war spread the virus when they coughed.
Food was scarce because of the war, so people were undernourished, and their immune systems were weakened.
Medical personnel often became ill as a result of exposure to airborne virus particles.
All of the above
- 22. Multiple Choice
The disease known as malaria may result in a fever, a decrease in red blood cells, and an enlarged liver and spleen. These symptoms are evidence of
a disruption of homeostasis
a decrease in allergic reactions
an increased number of cell organelles
hormone destruction
- 23. Multiple Choice
What is the primary function of the heart in the circulatory system?
To filter blood
To produce blood cells
To pump blood throughout the body
To store blood
- 24. Multiple Choice
Which type of blood cell is primarily responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body?
Red blood cells
White blood cells
Platelets
Plasma cells
- 25. Multiple ChoiceAn infectious disease is usually:caused by genescaused by lifestyle choicescaused by microbescaused by environmental factors
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