Vocabulary
Treatments
Identifying Disease Types
Immune Response
100
Collective term for things that infect the body to make you sick
Pathogen
100
Preventative treatment for viral infections
Vaccine
100
Identify the image as infectious, non-infectious, or congenital
infectious
100
The body system is responsible for working to fight off infection and pathogens in and on your body
immune system
200
Non-living pathogen that uses the body's cells to replicate
Virus
200
This would likely be used to treat athlete's foot
Antifungal
200
Identify the disease as infectious, non-infectious, or congenital
Infectious
200
Created by the body to target specific viruses
antibodies
300
Living single celled pathogen that uses the body as a source of food or shelter
Bacteria
300
Used to help the body destroy a bacterial infection when the immune system isn't enough
Antibiotics
300
Identify the image as infectious, non-infectious, or congenital
Non-infectious
300
First line of defense against foreign pathogens
skin and mucus membranes
400
The body makes these to help fight off and remember pathogens
Antibodies
400
This would likely be used to treat influenza
Anti-viral
400
Identify the image as infectious, non-infectious, or congenital
Congenital
400
The type of immune cells that respond to a foreign particle
white blood cell
500
A multicellular organism that requires a host for food and shelter to survive
parasite
500
Why can antibiotics be harmful if taken too frequently?
Because the antibiotic will target/kill all bacteria including useful bacteria
500
Identify the image as infectious, non-infectious, or congenital
Infectious
500
The specific pathogen that is causing an immune response is called
Antigen