WorksheetsPopulation: Factors affecting birth rates & death rates.
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is an epidemic?
a)
a virus that spreads through a population
b)
very tiny plants
c)
a disease that spreads through a population
d)
a medicine that destroys germs
2.
Why do some diseases spread quickly through poorer populations?
a)
little food and can't afford medicine
b)
people fly all over the world
c)
people don't use tissues
d)
it's a pandemic
3.
Where did HIV spread from in the 1950's?
a)
Africa
b)
America
c)
Cameroon
d)
South Africa
4.
HIV stands for ....
a)
Human immunisation virus
b)
Human infection virus
c)
High immunodeficiency verification
d)
Human immunodeficiency virus
5.
A syndrome is ...
a)
a group of symptoms considered together as part of a disease
b)
a group of pathogens considered together as part of a disease
c)
a group of diseases
d)
AIDS
6.
Infections with ... usually leads to ...
a)
AIDS ....HIV
b)
HIV ....AIDS
c)
pathogens ...pandemics
d)
pandemics ... pathogens
7.
All HIV carriers develop AIDS
a)
True
b)
False
8.
The most common form of HIV transmission in Africa is ...
a)
Tuberculosis
b)
Blood contamination
c)
unprotected sexual intercourse
d)
diarrhoea
9.
HIV & AIDS kills appromimately how many people a year?
a)
2,5 million
b)
3 million
c)
2 million
d)
1,5 million
10.
The short accronym used for Tuberculosis is ...
a)
TS
b)
TC
c)
TU
d)
TB
11.
Tuberculosis can be cured
a)
True
b)
False
12.
How many people die from AIDS-related diseases because they were tested too late?
a)
1 out of 2
b)
3 out of 5
c)
6 out of 8
d)
1 out of 10
13.
Tuberculosis spreads when carriers of the disease ...
a)
cough
b)
sneeze
c)
release pathogens into the air
d)
all answers are correct
14.
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by ...
a)
mosquitos
b)
a parasite carried by mosquitos
c)
a pathogen carried by mosquitos
d)
a plague carried by mosquitos
15.
What percentage of malaria-related deaths occur in AFrica?
a)
80%
b)
85%
c)
90%
d)
95%
16.
Diarrhoea is an infection of the ...
a)
stomach
b)
intestines
c)
bladder
d)
anus
17.
Outbreaks of diarrhoea are often caused by ...
a)
infected bacteria
b)
infected clinics
c)
infected bathrooms
d)
infected food or water
18.
A pandemic is ...
a)
an epidemic that has spread throughout the world
b)
an epidemic that is out of control
c)
a disease combining cholera, dysentry and typhoid
d)
a plague
19.
The "Black Death" that spread during the 14th century was the ...
a)
earliest outbreak of HIV & AIDS
b)
influenza pandemic
c)
bubonic plague
d)
bird flu
20.
People were infected with bubonic plague virus by ... that bit them.
a)
rats
b)
dogs
c)
fleas from rats
d)
fleas
21.
How many people died in Europe from the Balck Death?
a)
ALL
b)
two-thirds
c)
half
d)
one quarter
22.
How many people were killed by the bubonic plague worldwide?
a)
1 million
b)
50 million
c)
80 million
d)
100 million
23.
Which one of the following diseases left most survivors blind?
a)
Smallpox
b)
The Black Death
c)
Influenza
d)
bubonic plague
24.
Smallpox spread through the early Cape by...
a)
mosquitos
b)
sheets and clothes
c)
drinking water
d)
food
25.
Why did 90% of the Khoi people at the Cape died of smallpox?
a)
they had no medicine
b)
they had no hospitals
c)
they had no resistance to the disease
d)
they were slaves
26.
Is smallpox prevented or cured?
a)
Prevented
b)
Cured
27.
When was the last known case of smallpox diagnosed?
a)
1969
b)
1977
c)
1985
d)
2001
28.
Which pandemic started in an army camp in America?
a)
Black Death
b)
influenza
c)
Smallpox
d)
Tuberculosis
29.
A vaccine is used for...
a)
Influenza
b)
Bubonic Plague
c)
Smallpox
d)
Malaria
30.
Which one of the following is known as the world's most serious infectious disease?
a)
Pneumonia
b)
HIV/AIDS
c)
Tuberculosis
d)
Diarrhoea
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