Science 8 Online Revision 8: SE 3

Something capable of spreading disease without being infected itself (rats, mosquitoes, soil parasites)

• Vector

• Hazard

• Virus

• Infection

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Disease that can be spread from one generation to the next

• Microbiology

• Infection

• Streptococcus

• Infectious Disease

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Anything causing danger or risk to health

• Calorie

• Vector

• Hazard

• Hygiene

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Illness or sickness caused by genes, infection, toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.

• Disease

• Hygiene

• Epidemic

• Protozoa

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Nonliving pathogen that is capable of infecting and reproducing within living hosts: may spread rapidly throughout populations.

• Virus

• Vector

• Fungi

• Disease

A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting widespread regions across the world ( ex: smallpox, TB, certain flu outbreaks)

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Protozoa

• Bacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Organism that benefits from a host organism while the host is harmed

• Disease

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

• Parasite

Poisonous substance that may cause serious effects on the body

• fungi

• infection

• toxin

• hygiene

Infectious diseases are caused by _________ in the body.

• pathogens

• decomposers

Which of the following is an example of direct contact with an infected person?

• sneezing

• shaking hands