8C Microbes and Disease

Question 1

Name the 7 life processes

Answer 1

.movment
.resperation
.sences
.growth
.reproduction
.excretion
.nutrients

Question 2

What is a microorganism?

Answer 2

A very small living thing

Question 3

What is a pathogen?

Answer 3

Something that can cause illness if it enters the body

Question 4

What is the formula for aerobic respiration?

Answer 4

glucose + oxygen –> carbon dioxide + water

Question 5

What type of respiration occurs in the presence of oxygen?

Answer 5

aerobic respiration

Question 6

When does anearobic respiration occur?

Answer 6

When the cell is deprived of oxygen

Question 7

What does yeast produce when it does anaerobic respiration?

Answer 7

ethanol

alcohol

Question 8

How does yeast cause bread to rise?

Answer 8

When water, flour, yeast and sugar are mixed together the yeast does aerobic respiration producing carbon dioxide gas causing the bread to rise.

Question 9

How can pathogens enter the body?

Answer 9

Through airways, food, cuts, eyes

Question 10

How is the stomach adapted to stop pathogens entering the body?

Answer 10

It has acid in it

Question 11

How does the body remove pathogens from our airways?

Answer 11

Sticky mucus catches the pathogens and cilia on your airways moves the mucus up and out of your nose.