Keeping Healthy Flashcards
What is the name given to the rate at which chemical reactions occur in the body?
Metabolic rate
Put the following people in order of how much energy that are likely to need in their diet (from highest to lowest):
•Office worker
•Professional athlete
•PE teacher
Professional athlete
PE teacher
Office worker
What term is used to describe someone who does not eat a balanced diet?
Malnourished
Does exercise increase or decrease the amount of energy used by the body?
Increase
What type of pathogen reproduces inside loving cells?
Viruses
What are headaches and fever examples of?
Symptoms of a disease
Who was responsible for insisting doctors was their hands in hospitals?
Semmelweis
What do white blood cells produce to kill pathogens?
Antibodies
How are bacterial pathogens that aren’t affected by antibiotics described?
Resistant
What does malnourished mean?
Suffering from a lack of essential food nutrients.
What does obesity mean?
The condition of being overweight.
What does deficiency disease mean?
A disease caused by the lack of an essential element in the diet.
What does metabolic rate mean?
The rate at which an animal uses energy over a given time period.
What does cholesterol mean?
A fatty substance that is found in all cells of the body.
What does infectious mean?
A disease that is easily spread through air, water, etc.
What is a pathogen?
A disease causing microorganism.
What is a bacteria?
A single-celled microorganism that has no nucleus.
What is a toxin?
A poison produced by a living organism.
What is an antibody?
A protein produced in the body by the immune system to kill particular pathogens.
What is a vaccine.
A liquid preparation containing inactive or dead pathogens, used to make the body produce antibodies to provide protection against disease.
How was Semmelweis?
A doctor who recognised the importance of good hygiene in hospitals.
What is an antibiotic?
Medication uses to kill bacterial pathogens inside the body.
What is MRSA?
An antibiotic-resistant bacterium; a ‘superbug’
What is mutation?
A spontaneous change on the genetic material of a cell.
