Patient Zero vocabulary

The suffix "ist" means

• condition or process being studied

• person concerned with something

• the most or the best, superlative

• the first or original

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

A pandemic

• occurs in one specific country

• involves multiple species

• crosses international borders

• affects multiple generations

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

necro and mort are root words meaning

• growth

• illness

• repair

• death

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

Many diseases are spread because of unhygienic conditions. Unhygienic means

• dirty

• tidy

• primitive

• refined

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

When news of a pandemic reaches the public, the result can be turmoil. Turmoil means

• illness

• pain

• chaos

• joy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Use your knowledge of the root word "hemo." The patient began to hemorrhage. Hemorrhage means

• to sleep

• to bleed

• to recover

• to die

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

If a person's respiration is affected by a disease, he or she is having a hard time ____.

• sleeping

• eating

• breathing

• walking

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

If a person gets too cold, he or she may experience this.

• hypothermia

• hemothermia

• hyperthermia

• hippothermia

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

If you do something without meaning to, you have done something __________.

• unhygienically

• unwittingly

• unbelievably

• uncivilly

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

miasma is an ancient Greek word for

• headache

• pollution

• sewage

• bleeding

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E