WorksheetsPHS: Edexcel Health and Disease sB5e Spreading Pathogens
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following diseases can be spread by pathogens in droplets in the air? (mulitple answers)
a)
flu
b)
common cold
c)
tuberculosis (TB)
d)
cholera
2.
Which of the following diseases is spread in water?
a)
cholera
b)
malaria
c)
flu
d)
chalara ash dieback
3.
Which of the following diseases needs a vector to spread the pathogen?
a)
malaria
b)
flu
c)
cholera
d)
tuberculosis (TB)
4.
Keeping things clean to remove or kill pathogens is known as good ...?
a)
hygiene
b)
practice
c)
manners
d)
common sense
5.
What name is given to animals that transmit infection?
a)
vectors
b)
infectious
c)
host
d)
intermediary
6.
What is the vector responsible for the spread of malaria?
a)
mosquito
b)
Plasmodium
c)
humans
d)
Tsetse fly
7.
What type of pathogen causes malaria?
a)
protist
b)
bacteria
c)
virus
d)
fungi
8.
What is the name of the protist that causes malaria?
a)
Plasmodium
b)
Helicobacter
c)
Campylobacter
d)
Salmonella
9.
Which mosquito carries the Plasmodium pathogen?
a)
Female only
b)
Male only
c)
Both male and female
10.
How does the Plasmodium pathogen get into people?
a)
Mosquitoes inject it into the blood when it feeds on someone.
b)
The Plasmodium is breathed in via small droplets of water
c)
Mosquitoes leave it on the skin, and people touch it before then touching their faces
d)
It enters the body through small cuts and lesions
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