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Pathogens, immunity and vaccines

9th grade (Year 10 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.HS-LS1-2 · England: KS4 Combined Science: Health, disease and the development of medicines

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Question 1
How does a vaccine protect you?
- A. It trains white blood cells to make antibodies quickly if the real pathogen arrives.
- B. It makes you ill so you learn to avoid germs.
- C. It is an antibiotic.
- D. It kills every bacterium in your body.
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Question 2
What type of pathogen causes ringworm?
- A. virus
- B. bacterium
- C. fungus
- D. protist
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Question 3
Disease: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Heart disease is a non-communicable disease.
- B. Skin is a barrier that stops many pathogens entering.
- C. You can catch heart disease from someone else.
- D. Some bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.
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Question 4
What do antibodies do?
- A. digest food
- B. carry oxygen
- C. clot the blood
- D. attach to specific antigens on pathogens, helping destroy them
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Question 5
What type of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?
- A. virus
- B. bacterium
- C. fungus
- D. protist
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Question 6
Disease: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Some bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.
- B. All bacteria cause disease.
- C. Skin is a barrier that stops many pathogens entering.
- D. Heart disease is a non-communicable disease.
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Question 7
What do antibodies do?
- A. clot the blood
- B. attach to specific antigens on pathogens, helping destroy them
- C. carry oxygen
- D. digest food
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Question 8
What type of pathogen causes ringworm?
- A. virus
- B. bacterium
- C. fungus
- D. protist
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Question 9
Disease: which statement is NOT true?
- A. All bacteria cause disease.
- B. Mosquitoes spread malaria.
- C. Antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses.
- D. Some bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.
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Question 10
How does a vaccine protect you?
- A. It kills every bacterium in your body.
- B. It makes you ill so you learn to avoid germs.
- C. It is an antibiotic.
- D. It trains white blood cells to make antibodies quickly if the real pathogen arrives.
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Question 11
What type of pathogen causes rose black spot?
- A. virus
- B. bacterium
- C. fungus
- D. protist
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Question 12
Disease: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Skin is a barrier that stops many pathogens entering.
- B. Mosquitoes spread malaria.
- C. Some bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.
- D. Vaccines contain antibiotics.
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Question 13
What do antibodies do?
- A. clot the blood
- B. carry oxygen
- C. attach to specific antigens on pathogens, helping destroy them
- D. digest food
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Question 14
What type of pathogen causes measles?
- A. virus
- B. bacterium
- C. fungus
- D. protist
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Question 15
Disease: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Skin is a barrier that stops many pathogens entering.
- B. Antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses.
- C. Some bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.
- D. Vaccines contain antibiotics.
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Question 16
How does a vaccine protect you?
- A. It is an antibiotic.
- B. It kills every bacterium in your body.
- C. It makes you ill so you learn to avoid germs.
- D. It trains white blood cells to make antibodies quickly if the real pathogen arrives.

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Answer key: Pathogens, immunity and vaccines

1. A. It trains white blood cells to make antibodies quickly if the real pathogen arrives.
2. C. fungus
3. C. You can catch heart disease from someone else.
4. D. attach to specific antigens on pathogens, helping destroy them
5. A. virus
6. B. All bacteria cause disease.
7. B. attach to specific antigens on pathogens, helping destroy them
8. C. fungus
9. A. All bacteria cause disease.
10. D. It trains white blood cells to make antibodies quickly if the real pathogen arrives.
11. C. fungus
12. D. Vaccines contain antibiotics.
13. C. attach to specific antigens on pathogens, helping destroy them
14. A. virus
15. D. Vaccines contain antibiotics.
16. D. It trains white blood cells to make antibodies quickly if the real pathogen arrives.