Infectious Agents Vocab

What is a parasite?

• A non-living organism that feeds on other organisms.

• An organism that feeds on other organisms.

• A living thing that causes infectious diseases.

How can you describe bacteria?

• A unicellular that has a cell wall and reproduces by mitosis.

• A unicellular that has a cell wall and reproduces by osmosis.

• A unicellular that has a cell wall and reproduces by meiosis.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

True or False: A pathogen causes infectious diseases.

• True

• False

What is fungi?

• A dangerous disease.

• One of the main kingdoms ever.

• A kingdom made up of Chlorophyll-lacking and gets nutrients by breaking down dead matter in their ecosystem.

What is this?

• Bacteria

• Virus

• Parasite

• Infection

True or False: Communicable is a medicine that helps cure illnesses.

• True

• False

What's unhealthy behavior?

• A behavior that puts an organism at risk to catch a disease.

• The cause of getting a disease.

• A disease that is caused by pathogen.

What is this?

• Infection

• Parasite

• Infectious disease

What's an infection?

• A disease that is caused by pathogen.

• invasion and multiplication of infectious agents in your body.

• The start of a disease.

What's an environmental factor?

• A living or nonliving factor that influences the quality of life for living organisms.

• A change in environment.

• What more plants are produced.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4