Immune System

What is the job of the immune system?

• To protect your body from drugs and medicine
• To protect your body from air and water
• To protect your body from pathogens
• To protect your body from itself

True or False?
The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissue, and organs that work together to protect the body

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

What is one of the ways that antibiotics work? 

• They can stop bacteria from reproducing
• They can stop viruses from reproducing
• They stop toxins from poisoning the tissues of hosts
• They engulf the pathogens

What sort of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

• A bacterium
• A virus
• A fungus
• A protist

Disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium or fungus.

• antigen
• prion
• pathogen
• allergen

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

What is one way a pathogen can enter the body?

• Nose
• Mouth
• Broken Skin
• All of the Aove

An example of passing disease Person to Person would be

• Touching a door knob
• Eating spoiled food
• Sharing a drinking container
• Touching infected animal

Which would most likely prevent a cold virus from spreading in a classroom?

• tissue at a teacher's desk
• students wash hands regularly with soap 
• students shake hands regularly with each other
• students wipe desks with dry paper towels

Which of the following is a non-specific response?

• Fever
• Red, itchy eyes that may be crusted shut
• Signs that is related to one antigen

Which is an example of passive immunity?

• You have been infected
• You have been vaccinated
• You made antibodies
• You got your mother's antibodies