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Protist Diseases

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This protist disease can place a person in a coma. (giving the disease its unique name). Caused by the protist, Trypanosoma brucei.

a)

Malaria

b)

African Sleeping Sickness

c)

Giardiasis

d)

Toxoplasmosis

2.

This protist-caused disease is contracted through unclean water, and uncooked food. It causes cramping and diarrhea. In more serious cases, patients have bloody stools, fever, and, rarely, liver abscess may occur in severe cases.

a)

Malaria

b)

African Sleeping Sickness

c)

Amoebic Dysentery

d)

Trichomoniasis

3.

This organism is the cause of disease. (Common diarrheal disease)

a)

Malaria

b)

African Sleeping Sickness

c)

Trichomoniasis

d)

Giardiasis

4.

This insect is the animal vector for a very deadly disease. This disease kills about 3 million in the world people each year.

a)

Malaria

b)

Trichomoniasis

c)

African Sleeping Sickness

d)

Toxoplasmosis

5.

The disease caused by the protist that belongs to the genus Plasmodium.

a)

African Sleeping Sickness

b)

Toxoplasmosis

c)

Trichomoniasis

d)

Malaria

6.

Which organ in the body is the location where the Malaria protist goes to reproduce?

a)

Heart

b)

Liver

c)

Lung

d)

Skin

7.

True or False? Malaria can be prevented and even cured if caught early enough.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

This protist-caused disease is a sexually transmitted disease. Men infected with this protist often don't show symptoms.

a)

Malaria

b)

African Sleeping Sickness

c)

Trichomoniasis

d)

Toxoplasmosis

9.

This disease is caused by a very common protist present in cat feces. Pregnant women should use caution when changing the cat litter box to avoid picking up the protist, Toxoplasma gondii.

a)

Malaria

b)

African Sleeping Sickness

c)

Trichomoniasis

d)

Toxoplasmosis

10.

The protist, Entamoeba histolytica, causes this disease

a)

Amoebic Dysentery

b)

African Sleeping Sickness

c)

Toxoplasmosis

d)

Giardiasis