Vocabulary Flashcards

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What means “Antibiotics”?

A - Not harmed or affected by something

B - Medicine which helps cure infections

C - To give someone medical care

D - Tiny living organisms which cause diseases or decay

E - Very serious injury to your skin

F - To become less common, then disappear completely

A

B - Medicine which helps cure infections

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What means “Bacteria”?

A - Not harmed or affected by something

B - Medicine which helps cure infections

C - To give someone medical care

D - Tiny living organisms which cause diseases or decay

E - Very serious injury to your skin

F - To become less common, then disappear completely

A

D - Tiny living organisms which cause diseases or decay

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What means “Die out”?

A - Not harmed or affected by something

B - Medicine which helps cure infections

C - To give someone medical care

D - Tiny living organisms which cause diseases or decay

E - Very serious injury to your skin

F - To become less common, then disappear completely

A

F - To become less common, then disappear completely

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What means “Resistant”?

A - Not harmed or affected by something

B - Medicine which helps cure infections

C - To give someone medical care

D - Tiny living organisms which cause diseases or decay

E - Very serious injury to your skin

F - To become less common, then disappear completely

A

A - Not harmed or affected by something

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What means “Treat”?

A - Not harmed or affected by something

B - Medicine which helps cure infections

C - To give someone medical care

D - Tiny living organisms which cause diseases or decay

E - Very serious injury to your skin

F - To become less common, then disappear completely

A

C - To give someone medical care

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What means “Wound”?

A - Not harmed or affected by something

B - Medicine which helps cure infections

C - To give someone medical care

D - Tiny living organisms which cause diseases or decay

E - Very serious injury to your skin

F - To become less common, then disappear completely

A

E - Very serious injury to your skin

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Choose the correction definition for: Its a MYTH that being cold can give you a cold. Don’t believe it.

A - A large amount of something in one place

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

E - Causing hurt or damage

F - To change food a form the body can use

G - Dangerous

H - To send or pass something from one person or place to another

A

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

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Choose the correction definition for: There might be a high CONCENTRATION of germs on that wet sponge.

A - A large amount of something in one place

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

E - Causing hurt or damage

F - To change food a form the body can use

G - Dangerous

H - To send or pass something from one person or place to another

A

A - A large amount of something in one place

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Choose the correction definition for: Air CIRCULATES in an airplane during a flight.

A - A large amount of something in one place

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

E - Causing hurt or damage

F - To change food a form the body can use

G - Dangerous

H - To send or pass something from one person or place to another

A

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

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Choose the correction definition for: Its a GERM that causes sore throats

A - A large amount of something in one place

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

E - Causing hurt or damage

F - To change food a form the body can use

G - Dangerous

H - To send or pass something from one person or place to another

A

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

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Choose the correction definition for: After a meal, it takes at least several hours to DIGEST all the food.

A - A large amount of something in one place

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

E - Causing hurt or damage

F - To change food a form the body can use

G - Dangerous

H - To send or pass something from one person or place to another

A

F - To change food a form the body can use

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Choose the correction definition for: Some bacteria are HARMFUL, but “good” bacteria help us

A - A large amount of something in one place

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

E - Causing hurt or damage

F - To change food a form the body can use

G - Dangerous

H - To send or pass something from one person or place to another

A

E - Causing hurt or damage

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Choose the correction definition for: Water from the faucet in this area is UNSAFE to drink

A - A large amount of something in one place

B - A story many people believe, but which is not true

C - A small living thing that causes diseases

D - To move around continuously (within a system)

E - Causing hurt or damage

F - To change food a form the body can use

G - Dangerous

H - To send or pass something from one person or place to another

A

G - Dangerous

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Choose the correction definition for: Epidemic

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

” The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa 2013-2016 killed over 11,000 people”

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Choose the correction definition for: Peak

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

D - The time when something is at its highest

“At the peak of the outbreak many people were sick”

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Choose the correction definition for: Figure Out

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

A - To understand something after thinking about it

“At first, health care workers couldn’t figure out why so many people were sick”

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Q

Choose the correction definition for: Concerns

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

B - To be about a particular subject

“To be about a particular subject”

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Q

Choose the correction definition for: Researchers

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

“Leading researchers in the field say that they’re getting close to a cure for the disease”

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Q

Choose the correction definition for: Traced back to

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

G - To find the origin of something

“To find the origin of something”

20
Q

Choose the correction definition for: Toxin

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

F - a poisonous substance

“There must have been a toxin in the plant. The animals that ate it became very sick”

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Choose the correction definition for: Extinct

A - To understand something after thinking about it

B - To be about a particular subject

C - The rapid spread of a disease among many people in one place

D - The time when something is at its highest

E - Someone who studies a subject in detail and tries to discover new information about it

F - a poisonous substance

G - To find the origin of something

H - No longer existing

A

H - No longer existing

“No longer existing”