Week 30 Texas Studies Weekly Test

Article 1: Maria del Socorro Flores Gonzalez (1955- )

1. What type of disease is invasive amebiasis?

• autoimmune

• bacterial

• parasitic

• viral

Article 1: Maria del Socorro Flores Gonzalez (1955- )

What did Gonzalez contribute to battling the disease?

• discovered new versions of it

• designed a way to diagnose it

• invented a treatment to cure it

• invented a vaccine to prevent it

Article 1: Maria del Socorro Flores Gonzalez (1955- )

Why is her contribution important?

• People will not get the disease.

• Scientists can study how it mutates.

• Doctors can treat the disease earlier.

• Children can be cured of the disease.

Article 2: Jonas Salk (1914-1995)

What is a symptom of polio?

• loss of smell and taste

• cannot walk or move

• have no feeling in fingers

• see only black and white

Article 2: Jonas Salk (1914-1995)

What type of disease is invasive amebiasis?

• autoimune

• bacterial

• parasitic

• viral

Article 2: Jonas Salk (1914-1995)

What do vaccines help people develop?

• antibodies

• bacteria

• cures

• germs

Article 3: Louis Pasteur

What did Pasteur study?

• cells

• germs

• plagues

• vaccines

Article 3: Louis Pasteur

Pasteur discovered that germs travel through _ .

• the air

• clothing

• handshakes

• water

Article 3: Louis Pasteur

What was one result of Pasteur's discoveries?

• Food tasted better.

• The air was cleaner.

• Hospitals were safer.

• Disease became extinct.

Article 4: Susmita Bose (1969- )

What material has been used to make bone implants?

• glass

• metal

• plastic

• wood