Key Terms/Vocabulary
Disease
Immune System
Preventing Disease
Skill Review
100
Something that causes disease.
What is pathogen?
100
Once pathogens get inside the body, they produce an ________.
What is infection?
100
Is the body's defense against pathogens.
What is the immune system?
100
What is the number one prevention from STD's?
What is abstinence?
100
When you learn the nature and relationship of the parts of something by a close and careful examination, you.....
What is analyze?
200
Any condition that disrupts the normal functioning of the body.
What is disease?
200
True or False: A person can be infected with a virus by breathing in the virus-filled saliva that spreads through air when someone sneezes.
What is true?
200
This type of defense helps to keep pathogens out of the body.
What is nonspecific defense?
200
Pathogens are commonly known as this.
What are germs?
200
True or False: Vaccines will not work unless they are taken orally.
What is False?
300
A disease or illness affecting a large number of people.
What is epidemic?
300
Name one way pathogens can be transmitted through infectious diseases.
What is through contaminated food, insects, rodents, and other animals, or through the blood?
300
According to the lesson, how many features combat pathogens?
What is three?
300
True or False: After receiving a vaccination, the immune system produces a response to the drug and creates memory cells against it.
What is false? The immune system produces a response to the pathogen.
300
Hepatitis is most likely to be transmitted: a). by coughing, b). from mother to baby, c). through dirty water.
What is b). from mother to baby?
400
Dead or incomplete portions of pathogens or antigens.
What is vaccine?
400
Name one way noninfectious diseases can be caused.
What is by improper nutrition, lack of exercise, smoking, or alcoholism, or genetically?
400
This particular defense fights pathogens after they enter the body.
What is specific defense?
400
The lesson tells us that CDC stands for this.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
400
What is the most effective way in preventing an epidemic?
What is administering a vaccine to as many people as possible?
500
A condition of being able to resist a particular disease.
What is immunity?
500
Give an example of a noninfectious disease.
What is cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, cirrhosis, or arthritis?
500
What is the third unique feature that the immune system is capable of?
What is distinguishing between body cells and cells from other organisms?
500
One of the main goals of the CDC is to.......
What is prevent an epidemic?
500
This most recent virus hit West Africa as well as a few Americans.
What is Ebola?
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