Quiz: Can You Pass This Health Vocabulary Test?
Vocabularies vary with the different subjects in which one is operating in. Below are some of the words we got to cover in from Chapter 7 so far. Take it up and see if you can identify the correct definition for each term before we move on to chapter 8. All the best, and come back for the quiz in section 8.
- 1.
- A.
Immunization
- B.
Seizure
- C.
Cancer
- D.
Diabetes
- 2.What is a hormone that helps the body cells take sugar from the blood?
- A.
Tumor
- B.
Hepatitis
- C.
Insulin
- D.
White Blood Cells
- 3.What are diseases that affect a person for a long time?
- A.
Acute
- B.
Chronic
- C.
Measles
- D.
Chicken Pox
- 4.What are diseases that affect a person for only a short time?
- A.
Chronic
- B.
Antibodies
- C.
Sickle Cell Anemia
- D.
Acute
- 5.The giving of vaccines to people to prevent them from getting diseases is ___________.
- A.
DTP
- B.
Boosters
- C.
Immunization
- D.
Resistance
- 6.What is your body's natural ability to fight pathogens on it's own?
- A.
Immunity
- B.
Resistance
- C.
Pathogens
- D.
Skin Cancer
- 7.
- A.
Antibiotic
- B.
Vaccine
- C.
Bacteria
- D.
Virus
- 8.What is a medicine that kills certain organisms, especially bacteria?
- A.
Immunity
- B.
White Blood Cells
- C.
Antibiotic
- D.
Resisitance
- 9.
- A.
Vaccine
- B.
Immunity
- C.
Symptoms
- D.
Antibodies
- 10.What is the body's ability to remember how to make antibodies quickly?
- A.
Lifestyle
- B.
Scientists
- C.
Disease
- D.
Immunity
- 11.What is the the avoidance of behaviors that put your health at risk?
- A.
Fungi
- B.
Abstinence
- C.
Protozoa
- D.
Infections
- 12.What are one celled organisms that cause Amebic Dysentry?
- A.
Viruses
- B.
Bacteria
- C.
Fungi
- D.
Protozoa
- 13.What are small living things that cause Athlete's Foot?
- A.
Protozoa
- B.
Bacteria
- C.
Fungi
- D.
Cancer
- 14.What are one celled living things that cause strep throat, or pertussis?
- A.
Bacteria
- B.
Protozoa
- C.
Fungi
- D.
Viruses
- 15.
- A.
Protozoa
- B.
Viruses
- C.
Bacteria
- D.
Fungi
- 16.What is the rapid growth of pathogens in the body?
- A.
Pathogens
- B.
Infection
- C.
Symptoms
- D.
Abstinence
- 17.
- A.
Symptoms
- B.
Infection
- C.
Flu
- D.
Pathogens
- 18.
- A.
Chronic
- B.
Communicable disease
- C.
Symptoms
- D.
Death
- 19.
- A.
Communicable Diseases
- B.
Chicken Pox
- C.
Noncommunicable Diseases
- D.
Colds
- 20.What are diseases that can be spread from person to person?
- A.
Noncommunicable Diseases
- B.
Cancer
- C.
Diabetes
- D.
Communicable Diseases
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