Quiz: Can You Pass This Health Vocabulary Test?

20 Questions | By Jennife.urbaez | Updated: Mar 21, 2022 | Attempts: 545

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Quiz: Can You Pass This Health Vocabulary Test? - Quiz

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.

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1.

What is a sudden attack of unconciousness or uncontrolled body movement?
- 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.

What is a medicine that can give you immunity to a disease?
- 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.

What are substances made by white blood cells to help fight pathogens?
- 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.

What are the amllest pathogens that cause colds, or chicken pox?
- 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.

What are tiny organisms or viruses that cause diseases?
- A.
  
  Symptoms
- B.
  
  Infection
- C.
  
  Flu
- D.
  
  Pathogens
18.

What are signs and feelings of an illness?
- A.
  
  Chronic
- B.
  
  Communicable disease
- C.
  
  Symptoms
- D.
  
  Death
19.

What are diseases that do not spread from person to person?
- 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