Infection And Response

Question 1

What are the two types of disease?

Answer 1

Communicable and non-communicable

Question 2

Name 3 kinds of communicable diseases.

Answer 2

Chicken pox, flu, AIDS etc

Question 3

Name 3 non-communicable diseases.

Answer 3

Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, arthritis

Question 4

What are the 6 ways that diseases can be spread?

Answer 4

Direct contact, animals, bodily fluids, insects, air, water or food

Question 5

What are the two kinds or responses?

Answer 5

Specific and non specific

Question 6

When pathogens enter your body, white blood cells…

Answer 6

Defect the pathogen, increase in number and break down the pathogen

Question 7

What are the 3 main methods of white blood cells?

Answer 7

Engulf the pathogen, produce antibodies and produce antitoxins

Question 8

What do antitoxins do that antibodies DON’T do to a pathogen?

Answer 8

Neutralise it

Question 9

What are the methods of controlling diseases?

Answer 9

Clean drinking water, healthy diet, isolation, vaccines, hospitals, shelter, disposal of waste

Question 10

What can happen in the world that can increase the likelinessof disease?

Answer 10

Natural disasters