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8.1a.KO.Practice.How the body works

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a pathogen?

(a)  

2.

Name 4 types of pathogen

(a)  

3.

What do bacteria release which make you feel ill?

(a)  

4.

What are the main ways that pathogens can be spread?

(a)  

5.

What type of pathogen causes salmonella and gonorrhoea?

(a)  

6.

What type of pathogen causes measles and HIV?

(a)  

7.

How do viruses make you ill?

(a)  

8.

What are the non-specific defences of the human body?

(a)  

9.

Which is the smallest pathogen?

(a)  

10.

What do we call a disease that can be passed from person to person due to a pathogen?

(a)  

11.

What is the system which fights pathogens once they enter the human body?

(a)  

12.

What are the names of the cells which fight pathogens?

(a)  

13.

What are the 3 things which while blood cells do?

(a)  

14.

What is in a vaccination?

(a)  

15.

Who developed the first vaccination?

(a)  

16.

What is an antigen?

(a)  

17.

What is antibody?

(a)  

18.

What is the word used when a person has had a disease and cannot get it again?

(a)  

19.

What are the positives of vaccination?

(a)  

20.

What are the negatives of vaccinations?

(a)  

21.

What is the name of the drug that can used to treat bacterial infections?

(a)  

22.

Why can antibiotics not be used for a cold?

(a)  

23.

Do painkillers cure diseases?

(a)  

24.

What is the first thing that new drugs are tested on?

(a)  

25.

What is a placebo?

(a)  

26.

What is a double-blind trial?

(a)  

27.

What is peer review?

(a)  

28.

What is a non-communicable disease?

(a)  

29.

Which non-communicable disease is caused by uncontrollable cell division?

(a)  

30.

What are the two types of cancer tumour?

(a)  

31.

What parts of the body does cardiovascular disease affect?

(a)  

32.

What are the arteries which deliver blood to the heart muscles called?

(a)  

33.

Fatty deposits can build up in coronary arteries leading to less blood being able to get to the heart muscle, what important substances are being carried in the blood to the heart muscle?

(a)  

34.

If the heart muscle cannot get enough oxygen, what can happen?

(a)  

35.

What can increase the fatty build ups in arteries?

(a)  

36.

What drug can reduce cholesterol in blood?

(a)  

37.

What is the name of the disease that people who can't control their own blood sugar levels have?

(a)  

38.

Type of diabetes that obese people at a higher risk of developing?

(a)  

39.

What do people with type 1 diabetes need to inject into their body during the day?

(a)  

40.

What name can you give the factors such as smoking, drinking and obesity which can negatively impact on health?

(a)  

41.

What 3 diseases can smoking cause?

(a)  

42.

What immediate effects does exercise have on a human's body?

(a)  

43.

How can you measure heart rate?

(a)  

44.

What does anaerobic mean?

(a)  

45.

What sugar is used in respiration?

(a)  

46.

Why does breathing rate increase when exercising?

(a)  

47.

Why does heart rate increase when exercising?

(a)  

48.

What are substances that can cause cancer known as?

(a)  

49.

Two organs affected by regularly drinking too much alcohol?

(a)  

50.

What are the factors that increase someone's chance of getting a disease called?

(a)