Vocabulary
Disease
Fighting Disease
Immune System
Infectious, Noninfectious, Allergy, Genetic?
100
Any abnormal condition in a living organism causing illness
What is a disease?
100
A disease like the flu with a fever, because it usually lasts only about a week
What is an acute disease?
100
Useful to fight bacteria or protist infections, but not viruses or noninfectious disease
What are antibiotics?
100
Heart, liver, nerves
What are three parts that are not in the immune system?
100
Strep throat and the flu
What are two infectious diseases?
200
A disease not caused by a pathogen
What is a noninfectious disease?
200
Heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes; because they last for a very long time
What are some chronic diseases?
200
Three body systems that fight disease
What is the immune system, the lymphatic system, and the cardiovascular system?
200
Lymph nodes, thymus, adenoids
What are three parts of the immune system?
200
Hay fever and poison ivy
What are two allergies that are non-infectious.
300
A normally harmless substance that causes an allergic reaction
What is an allergen?
300
Four ways disease are spread
What are person-to-person contact; contaminated objects; infected animals; soil, food, or water
300
The best way to prevent the spread of disease
What is proper hand washing?
300
Tonsils, appendix, spleen
What are three parts of the immune system?
300
Malaria and measles
What are two infectious diseases?
400
A disease that can be spread from one person to another
What is an infectious disease?
400
They attach to cells and inject genetic material. The cell is tricked into making more viruses.
How do viruses multiply?
400
Proteins created by the body to fight disease; vaccines help the body create these
What are antibodies?
400
Bone marrow, lymphatic vessels
What are two parts of the immune system?
400
Alzheimer's
What is a noninfectious disease?
500
A disease that last for a very long time
What is a chronic disease?
500
Four common groups of pathogens
What are bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists?
500
Antibiotics attack living pathogens. Viruses are not considered to be alive.
Why don't antibiotics work against viruses?
500
Plasma, genes, pituitary gland
What are not parts of the immune system?
500
Color blindness
What is a noninfectious and genetic disease?
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