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Preventing the Transmissible Disease

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If we are sick that means we are ________ by germs.

a)

eaten

b)

infected

c)

found

d)

caught

2.

_______ is the other name of germs.

a)

bacterias

b)

virus

c)

pathogens

d)

parasites

3.

______ consists of DNA with a protective coating of PROTEIN.

a)

viruses

b)

bacterias

c)

fungi

d)

parasites

4.

We may get a disease from insect bites, such as ____

a)

fleas, ticks, grasshoppers

b)

mosquito, snakes, ants

c)

mosquito, ticks, fleas

d)

ants, grasshoppers, ticks

5.

Viruses can causes _______

a)

measles, chicken pox, flu

b)

tetanus, malaria, scabies

c)

hepatitis B, sleeping sickness

d)

mumps and lyme disease

6.

lyme disease, malaria, scabies are caused by _______

a)

fungi

b)

soil, dust, animal feces

c)

viruses

d)

insect bites

7.

There are 4 types of vaccines: attenuated (weakened), __________, toxoid, and conjugate vaccine.

a)

expensive vaccine

b)

killed vaccine

c)

protein vaccine

d)

toxin vaccine

8.

Vaccines work by triggering __________ to fight against certain diseases

a)

our brain

b)

our body

c)

our feelings

d)

our immune system

9.

Attenuated (weakened) vaccine is _____

a)

live viruses that are combined with protein.

b)

live viruses that are weakened to be made as a vaccine.

c)

live viruses that are weakened by taking their toxins.

d)

viruses that are killed to be made as vaccines.

10.

Contaminated food and water can contain these bacteria _______

a)

salmonella and e-coli

b)

insects and varicella zoster

c)

tsetse fly and mites

d)

plasmodium parasite

11.

A condition which our tongue is covered by white liquid caused by fungi is called ________

a)

german measles

b)

scabies

c)

thrush disease

d)

rubella

12.

Polio disease is _____________

a)

a disease that can cause paralysis

b)

a contagious disease spread from bacteria

c)

a disease that causes skin rash

d)

a contagious disease spread from the air

13.

These are CONTAGIOUS disease: ______

a)

TBC, chicken pox, typhoid fever

b)

athlete's foot, polio

c)

sleeping sickness, thrush

d)

tetanus, lyme disease

14.

Toxoid Vaccine is the vaccine which __________

a)

uses the weakened live viruses

b)

uses the killed viruses

c)

uses an inactivated toxin from bacterium.

d)

uses parts of bacteria and parts of protein

15.

Mumps virus affects our ____________ which cause swelling on our cheeks and fever.

a)

lungs

b)

liver

c)

brain

d)

saliva glands

16.

TBC or __________ is caused by a bacteria attacking our lungs and make us cough, sometimes with blood.

a)

tubercos

b)

toberculose

c)

tuberculosis

d)

tobercoloses

17.

The bites of Tsetse Fly can cause _______ which often happens in _______

a)

cholera, Indonesia

b)

sleeping sickness, Africa

c)

tuberculosis, Asia

d)

tetanus, Egypt

18.

Tetanus is caused by bacterial toxin called Clostridium Tetani. We might get tetanus from _______

a)

animal feces, soil, dust

b)

contaminated food

c)

insect bites

d)

direct contact or sneezes

19.

Parasites can cause some diseases such as ________

a)

TBC, tetanus, chicken pox

b)

malaria, scabies, sleeping sickness

c)

malaria, cholera, pertussis

d)

covid 19, common cold, mono

20.

There are 4 types of germs. The one that is NOT a cellular organism is _____

a)

virus

b)

bacteria

c)

fungi

d)

parasites