PLTW Infectious Disease Activity 1 Vocabulary

When a person can spread their infection to someone else. Also called infectious.

• contagious

• communicable disease

• germs

• experiment

When germs get inside your body, multiply, and make you sick.

• infection

• germs

• communicable disease

• scientist

An infectious disease that can be spread from person to person or from an animal to a person. The spread can occur by direct or indirect contact with an affected individual.

• communicable disease

• experiment

• scientists

• infection

an illness caused by germs that harms an organism's health

• scientist

• infectious disease

• contagious

• germ

A microorganism that can make a person sick. The four major types are bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa.

• germ

• infection

• contagious

• scientist

A person who asks questions, makes observations, and investigates ideas in order to acquire knowledge and/or solve problems.

• scientist

• infection

• communicable disease

• germs

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

a type of blood cell that is part of the immune system. It's job is to protect the body from sickness

• germ

• infection

• communicable disease

• white blood cell

having disease caused by germs

• infected

• germ

• scientist