Welcome to your B6 Practice Questions 1.4 – Diseases

1. 
What is a parasite?

2. 

The living thing that a parasite infects is called the .

3. 
All bacteria are harmful.

4. 

Bacteria are very small, but are even smaller.

5. 
Which of these diseases is caused by bacteria?

6. 

Ringworm, athlete's foot and rusts in plants are caused by .

7. 
How does the stomach help to defend the body against diseases?

8. 

Sticky in the nose, windpipe and other air passages traps germs.

9. 
Good hygiene means keeping ourselves and the things around us clean.

10. 

Do not leave food at room temperature, because bacteria and fungi grow faster when it is .

11. 
You have to sneeze, but you do not have a tissue. What should you do?

12. 

Insects that spread a disease parasite but do not get the disease themselves are called .

13. 
Malaria and yellow fever are spread by the tsetse fly.

14. 

Water from rivers or reservoirs should be or chemically treated before you drink it.

15. 
A clinic in Indonesia counted malaria cases in one year. In which months were the most cases reported? (Workbook p. 16)