Diseases Unit Test
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- Q1Which pathogen requires a host to survive?bacteria and virusesparasites and bacteriaviruses and parasitesfungi and bacteria30s
- Q22. Which pathogen is the smallest in size?parasitefungivirusbacteria30s
- Q33. A doctor diagnoses a new patient and makes a list of the patients symptoms. abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea, larvae in poop, vomiting. Which microbe most likely caused the symptoms?virusbacteriafungusparasite120s
- Q44. John goes to the doctor with a cut that has become infected. He cleaned it but it was a deep cut and it is not healing. What pathogen was probably responsible for the infection?fungusvirusparasitebacteria120s
- Q55. Why can't a cold virus makes your stomach sick?The cold virus just happened to not go to the stomach cells- otherwise a person would have been sick to his stomach too.The cold virus can attach to any cell to reproduce because of its size.The cold virus has keys that only attach to certain cells in the nose, throat, and mouth.120s
- Q66. Some diseases are genetic and the tendency to get them can be passed through families. Which diseases below are influenced by genetics?Pneumonia, smallpox, and athlete's footarthritis, cancer, and heart diseaseHeart disease, lyme disease, and pneumoniacolds, allergies, and cancer120s
- Q77. Which pathogen uses a flagella and is a unicellular prokaryote?fungusvirusBacteriaparasite120s
- Q88. Pandemics spread around the world much faster than they used to hundreds of years ago. What is one probable cause for this?snapchatrapid trainsthe internetair travel is more common now120s
- Q99. The following information shows details of different disease outbreaks in history. 1938: Influenza affected North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. 1961-1975: cholera affected sourthwest Asia and Europe. 1668: Plague affected France 1968-1979: Hong Kong Flu affected Asia, Europe. and North America. Which disease was an epidemic?PlagueCholeraInfluenza (flu)Hong Kong Flu120s
- Q1010. What is one worry about the drugs that are used to treat bacterial infections?The drugs are coming from labs where they have been mixed with chemicals that make them unsafe.Viruses have mutated and will not respond to the drugs.Doctors can't figure out the right drugs to treat the parasites.Bacteria have become resistant and no longer respond to the drugs.120s
- Q1111. Infectious diseases are just one category of diseases. Which of the following is an infectious disease?skin cancerarthritisstrep throatbrain tumor120s
- Q1212. Which statement helps decide whether a disease is a pandemic or an epidemic?The infection rate is higher than it normally would be.Most of the global population is affected by the disease.The disease is spread in many ways.The disease has no available cure.120s
- Q1313. What is the best way to stop spreading a disease?Wash hands, stay away from dead people that had the disease, call your mother, and play video games all night.High five each other in the hallway, go to the school dance, have a birthday party.Wash hands, cover mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing, and quarantine when sick.Wash hands, play basketball with your friends, and take cold medicine.120s
- Q1414. What is the vector for Lyme Disease?a tsetse flyAnopheles mosquitodeer ticka spider120s
- Q1515. What is the best way to PREVENT a viral infection?Don't breathe around other people.take a vaccine to help your body make antibodies against the diseasetake vitamins to kill the virusYou can only treat the symptoms in a virus.120s