Immune System
Eating these can help strengthen your immune system?
What are fruits and vegetables?
These are cells that recognize invaders like germs.
What is Lymphocytes
Name this part of the immune system? See #1 on board
What is the spleen?
Getting these when you are young helps our immune system fight off diseases?
What is Sleep
Spongy tissue of the bone that produces cells of the immune system including lymphocites and macrophages.
What is bone marrow?
A narrow, finger-shaped pouch that projects out from the colon. Part of our immune system please see figure #2
What is the appendix?
A substance made from weakened or killed pathogens introduced into the body to produce immunity.
These are made from a substance that prevent the spread of the disease.
What is a vaccine?
What are the four main types of germs:
What are viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi.
This activity can help you loose and/or maintain your weight but also help you strengthen your immune system.
What is Exercise?
The largest internal organ of the immune system.
What is the spleen?
Name some ways humans/animals introduce diseases to their body?
By eating raw chicken, raw beef or drinking contaminated water/untreated water, through the air by coughing/sneezing, touching/shaking hands.
When your immune system overreacts to something harmless its called?
What is an allergy?
Use only the parts of the pathogen that contain the antigen.
What is Component Vaccines
These are located strategically throughout the body, they can be prevalent in areas near body openings such as digestive tract and genital region.
What are lymph nodes?
This is the spongy tissue inside some of your bones, such as your hip and thigh bones, leukocytes are made here. See figure # 4
What is bone marrow?
What is small pox?
This organ filters most viruses and bacteria that enter through mouth or nose
What are tonsils
Name something that will not help your immune system?
What is playing video games, not exercising, having poor eating habits, not resting enough, bad/poor hygiene.
Once your body has fought a pathogen; it has T and B cells that remember it.
What are memory cells?
This is a specialized primary lymphoid organ of the immune system. Here is where T cells or lymphocytes mature . See # 3
What is the Thymus?
This type of bacteria attacks the digestive system and can be transmitted by eating or drinking contaminated food or drink. Can cause diarrhea.
What is E.coli?