Medical Detectives
How does Cholera spread?
What is foodborne
What is a material that slows down the transfer of heat.
What is insulator
A patient comes to you with complaints of pain, tingling, and numbness in her left foot.
The patient has no problems with movement.
Brain scans, CSF, and EMG tests were all normal.
Nerve conduction velocity tests were abnormal.
This information leads you to believe the problem is in the peripheral nervous system.
Given the choices below, which structure is the most likely location of the problem?
Sensory neurons
Motor neurons
Brain
Spinal cord
What is number one
Why is the upstairs of a house usually warmer than the basement?
What is heat rises and cold sinks
What functions might be affected in a patient with a tumor in the occipital lobe?
Behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention.
Sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory.
Visual perception and some forms of visual short-term memory.
Processing smell and sound, and the ability to recognize and understand words and language.
What is number three
In which direction does thermal energy always travel?
What is From warm to cold
This microorganism causes strep throat. It can multiply without a host. It can be treated with antibiotics. It is so small, you would need to view it through a microscope at school.
What type of disease agent is this microorganism?
Virus
Fungus
Bacteria
This microorganism is not a disease agent
What is number three
True or False: When you hold an ice cube, the "coldness" moves into your hand.
What is False
A group of students performed an experiment to see whether running in place for two minutes or being in a hot room would increase body temperature.
They had five students sit in a chair for two minutes and then measured their body temperature.
They had the same five students run in place for two minutes in a hot room and then measured their body temperature after running.
They repeated the experiment three times.
They analyzed their results, they concluded that running in place does increase body temperature and that being in a hot room does increase body temperature.
What was wrong with Experiment 1?
They didn’t include a control group.
They didn’t include multiple trials.
They included more than one independent variables.
They should’ve only had one test subject.
What is #3
Scenario: You place a hot boiled egg into a bowl of cold water. Describe the energy transfer:
What is from the egg to the water