B1.2 Drugs, Alcohol & Smoking

Question 1

What do Hallucinogens do?

Answer 1

Slow down reaction times 🕵

Question 2

What do Stimulants do?

Answer 2

Increase the speed of Neurotransmission (of nerve impulses) across synapses. This speeds up reaction times🕒

Question 3

What do depressants do?

Answer 3

Slow down the activity of neurones in the brain and sometimes help us relax 🛌

Question 4

Give an example of a depressant

Answer 4

Alcohol 🍷🍸🍺🍾🍹

Question 5

Define a recreational drug

Answer 5

A drug that makes us feel a certain way 🙄

Question 6

Give example of a legal drugs

Answer 6

Caffeine ☕️

Question 7

What do pain killers do?

Answer 7

Block of certain nerve impulses so we feel less pain💉

Question 8

What does a Narcotic drug do?

Answer 8

Makes you feel sleepy 💤

Question 9

Give an example of a illegal drug

Answer 9

Canabis 💰

Question 10

What does Tar contain?

Answer 10

Chemical substances called carcinogens 🚬

Question 11

What effect does the tobacco smoke have on the body?

Answer 11

It kills living tissue ⚔

Question 12

What is Carbon Monoxide?

Answer 12

A poisonous gas 🕳

Question 13

What does Carbon Monoxide do?

Answer 13

Reduces the amount of oxygen that red blood cells can carry💉

Question 14

Where is Carbon Monoxide found?

Answer 14

In tobacco smoke🚬

Question 15

What does a lack of oxygen to active muscles cause?

Answer 15

Pain, such as in the legs when walking 🚶🏼

Question 16

Give another effect of carbon monoxide

Answer 16

Makes blood vessels narrower 〰

Question 17

Define a Drug

Answer 17

A chemical substance that changes the way the body works, including behaviour💊

Question 18

What is nicotine?

Answer 18

The addictive part of tobacco smoke ✖️

Question 19

Define a transplant

Answer 19

Where a healthy organ is taken from one body and put into a patient to replace an organ that no longer functions properly. 🙎🏼

Question 20

What effect does alcohol have on reaction time

Answer 20

Reaction time increases🕔

Reaction speed decreases🕗

Question 21

What happens to alcohol in the body?

Answer 21

It’s quickly absorbed by the body 🙇🏼

Question 22

What is a short term effect of alcohol?

Answer 22

Slows down activity in the brain and nervous system 🗣

Question 23

Name a long term effect of alcohol

Answer 23

Damages the organs 🙅🏼

Question 24

Name two things on a doctors criteria for transplant donor and patient

Answer 24

Have similar tissues - closer the match more likely transplant would be🚨
Similar ages 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
How ill the patient is 🏥
How geographically close they are - quicker the organ can be transplanted more successful it would be🚑

Question 25

How long do people that abuse alcohol have to stay off alcohol for before being aloud a transplant?

Answer 25

6 months 🗓🍹🍺

Question 26

What is a pathogen?

Answer 26

A microorganism that causes disease 🐜

Question 27

What is a vector

Answer 27

Animals that pass pathogens from one person to another 🦃🐘🐖🐪🐄🐂🐅🐃🐊🐆

Question 28

Name two ways pathogens pass between humans

Answer 28

Vectors🐥

Direct contact ✋🏼

Question 29

How can we prevent pathogens getting into the body

Answer 29

Antiseptic ⛑

Question 30

What do plants use to protect themselves from pathogens

Answer 30

Antibacterials🌀

Question 31

How can we kill pathogens if they enter the body

Answer 31

Antibiotics 💊

Question 32

What don’t antibiotics kill?

Answer 32

Viruses 🔍

Question 33

What is MRSA

Answer 33

A bacterium that is resistant to most antibiotics 🔒

Question 34

Who was Joseph Lister

Answer 34

A Scottish surgeons who showed using antiseptics could stop infections 🗺

Question 35

What do resistant bacteria do?

Answer 35

The resistant bacteria reproduce to form a colony of resistant bacteria 💪🏼