9th Grade Health- Chap. 23

What is a microorganism that causes disease?

• Pathogen

• Vaccine

• Antigen

• Lymphocyte

Many communicable disease begin as infections of the

• lymphatic system

• digestive tract

• respiratory tract

• immune response

Which is NOT a way that a disease can spread through direct contact?

• Touching a contaminated object

• Giving birth

• Receiving a puncture wound

• Having contact with infected animals

What cells coordinate and perform many of the functions of specific immunity?

• Lymphocytes

• Antibodies

• Phagocytes

• Vaccines

What is a global outbreak of an infectious disease called?

• infection

• Vector

• Pandemic

• Toxin

This is an infection of the lungs in which air sacs fill with pus and other liquids.

• bacteria

• pneumonia

• giardia

• antibody

This is a single-celled organism that live almost everywhere on earth

• virus

• antibody

• bacteria

a microorganism that causes recreational water illness

• virus

• antibody

• giardia(aka beaver fever)

a piece of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat

• bacteria

• virus

• antibody

a protein that acts against a specific antigen

• virus

• pneumonia

• antibody