Warm Up 1/30

An organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.

• outbreak

• vector

• virus

• bacteria

Which pathogen needs a host cell to reproduce?

• virus

• bacteria

• fungus

• parasite/protist

Malaria is caused by:

• parasite

• fungi

• virus

• bacteria

In 1918, an outbreak of influenza infected 500,000 people all over the world. Tens of millions of those infected died. In 1994, an outbreak of pneumonic plague spread quickly through the city of Surat in India, killing 52 people.

Which statement BEST describes the two events?

• Both outbreaks were pandemics.

• Both outbreaks were epidemics.

• The influenza outbreak was a pandemic. The plague outbreak was an epidemic.

• The influenza outbreak was an epidemic and the plague outbreak was a pandemic.

This type of fossil is tree sap hardened and replaced by minerals.

• Petrified wood

• Imprint

• Amber

• Mold