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Spiral 312 Pasteur & Salk

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What disease did Dr. Salk help beat?

a)

Small Pox

b)

Polio

c)

Covid-19

d)

Malaria

2.

Salk worked with Thomas Jefferson, Jr at the University of Michigan

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Polio is a disease that causes crippling, paralysis or even death.

a)

true

b)

false

4.

Why was the polio vaccine so important?

a)

Because it saved millions of children's lives.

b)

Because it made computers smaller.

c)

Because it made Jonas Salk rich.

d)

Because it killed people.

5.

Who has a milk sterilizing process named after him?

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Jonas Salk

c)

Bill Gates

d)

Steve Jobs

6.

Louis Pasteur discovered bacteria were the reason why milk ....

a)
improved
b)
evaporated
c)
spoiled
d)
disappeared
7.

Louis Pasteur invented the process of pasteurization. During pasteurization liquids are heated so that harmful bacteria is killed. Why is pasteurization an important invention?

a)

It makes food safer to eat.

b)

It stops the spread of diseases.

c)

It prevents polio from spreading.

d)

It makes food taste better.