Vocabulary
Types of Disease
Communicable Diseases Spread
Pathogens
Vaccines/ Prevention
100

What does infection mean?

When germs/pathogens enter the body, multiply, and cause illness.

100

What type of pathogen gives you the common cold?

Virus

100

How do vectors spread disease? 

Some animals can carry diseases and pass them to humans through bites (like rabies).

100

___________ are small organisms that can be helpful or harmful.

Bacteria

100

Some illnesses may require _________ medicine if infected with a virus.

Antiviral 

200

What is a Pathogen?

A germ (like a virus or bacterium) that can cause disease.

200

What pathogen gives you Salmonella?

Bacteria 

200

When people cough, sneeze, or talk, tiny droplets with germs can spread through _______________

Airborne transmission 

200

__________ are very tiny germs that can make us sick by entering our cells.

Viruses

200

If someone is sick around you, how can you prevent contamination?

 Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

300

Communicable diseases definition

An illnesses caused by germs (like bacteria, viruses, and fungi) that can spread from one person to another.

300

How do you get infected with malaria? 

Mosquito bite 

300

How can food and water make you sick? 

Eating contaminated food or drinking unclean water can expose you to pathogens like bacteria or protists.

300

___________ are organisms that can cause skin infections like athlete's foot.

Fungi

300

If you came to school with a cold, how can you slow down the spread of germs?

Use a tissue or elbow when coughing or sneezing.

400

Medicine used to treat bacterial infections, not viruses.

Antibiotic

400

What pathogen is yeast?

Fungi

400

Indirect contact can happen by _____________.

Touching surfaces (like doorknobs or keyboards) that have germs on them.

400

_____________ live on or inside another organism as parasites.

Protists

400

Why are vaccines important? 

Vaccines protect us by preparing our immune system to fight off specific diseases.

500

The body's ability to resist or fight off infections.

Immunity

500

What pathogen infects potatoes, giving them Potato Late Blight?

Protist

500

Touching someone who has the disease, like shaking hands or hugging is ____________________.

Direct contact

500

Which pathogen requires a host to replicate and survive?

Virus

500

How do vaccines work?

They introduce a weak piece of the germ to the body, so it can recognize and fight the real disease in the future.

M
e
n
u