Communicable Disease

Question 1

What are Pathogens?

Answer 1

Micro-organisms that enter the body and cause disease

Question 2

What do Pathogens cause?

Answer 2

Communicable diseases that can easily spread

Question 3

What is bacteria?

Answer 3

Bacteria are very small cells that can reproduce rapidly inside your body

Question 4

What do bacteria do?

Answer 4

They make you feel ill by producing toxins (poisons)

Question 5

Which is smaller Viruses or Cells?

Answer 5

Viruses, they’re not cells they’re much smaller

Question 6

What do Viruses do like Bacteria does?

Answer 6

Reproduces rapidly inside your body

Question 7

What are Protists?

Answer 7

Single-Celled Eukaryotes

Question 8

What are Protists?

Answer 8

parasites

Question 9

Where do protists live?

Answer 9

Inside or outside organisms’ body’s

Question 10

What is a Vector?

Answer 10

An Organism( Usually an insect) that carries a disease

Question 11

What is Fungi?

Answer 11

single-celled or a body made up of hyphae

Question 12

What are hyphae?

Answer 12

(Thread like structures)

Question 13

How do hyphae cause diseases?

Answer 13

by growing and penetrating human skin and the surface of plants

Question 14

What do hyphae produce?

Answer 14

Spores which travel to other plants

Question 15

What are the main ways pathogens can be spread?

Answer 15

Water Air Direct Contact

Question 16

How can pathogens be spread by Water?

Answer 16

Drinking or bathing in dirty water (Common disease spread is Cholera)

Question 17

How can pathogens be spread by Air?

Answer 17

Breathing in droplets in the air produced when you a cough or sneeze

Question 18

How can pathogens be spread by Direct Contact?

Answer 18

Picked up by touching contaminated surfaces, including the skin