Infectious and Non Infectious Diseases

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

Pathoges are

• disease causing microorganisms

• agents that caused diseases

• causes of illness

• all of these

Different groups of agents that caused diseases are

• bacteria

• viruses

• protozoans

• all of these

Agents that cause infectious diseases can be transmitted in many ways like

• through the air

• through contaminated water

• through body fluids

• all of the above

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

What is one MAJOR organ of the Immune System?

• Spinal Cord
• Brain
• Skin
• Heart

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Bacteria can only be spread through coughing

• False
• True