Vocabulary Quiz Immune System

A condition in which a person’s immune system is overly sensitive to environmental substances that are normally harmless.

• Resistance

• Bacteria

• Allergy

• Immunity

An injection containing dead or weak forms of a virus to help increase immunity.

• Pathogen

• Antigen

• Cure

• Vaccine

Anything that triggers an immune response is a/n

• lymph cell
• antigen
• antibody
• neutrop

What do scientists call bacteria and viruses that can make people sick?  

• diseases
• vaccines
• antibodies
• pathogens

 Like all other body systems, the immune system helps the body maintain homeostasis.  Which statement best describes how the immune system does this?  

• it protects other organs and tissues from infection and disease
• it breaks down food to provide cells with nutrients
• it gathers information through the senses and controls all other body systems
•  it transports oxygen and carbon dioxide

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Diseases are passed from human to human by these four types of germs: 

• Viruses, influenza, HIV, and vaccines
• Viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites
• Viruses, cancers, mutagens, and DNA
• Viruses, blood, pollutants, and symptoms

What do B cells produce?

• antigens

• macrophages

• T cells

• antibodies

What do antibodies attach to on the pathogen?

• Anti inflammatory
• Antigens
• Antiseptic
• Antibodies

Organisms or particles that have the potential to cause a disease.

• Pathogen

• T-Cell

• B-Cell

• Thymus

Proteins produced by B cells and designed to mark antigens to be destroyed, specific to the antigen.

• Antigens

• Active Immunity

• Antibodies

• Antibiotics