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6. What cell helps protect the body in your immune system?

  • Platelets
  • White blood cells
  • Red blood cells

7. What are the symptoms of malaria?

  • Sharing needles
  • Repeating episodes of fever
  • Purple spots

8. What are the other two ways that the white blood cells defend the body?

  • Vaccinating and destroying vectors
  • Producing antibodies and antitoxins
  • Producing hydrochloric acid and mucus

9. What are pathogens?

  • Microorganisms that enter the body and cause disease
  • Communicable diseases
  • They make people sick

10. What is it called when a white blood cell eats a pathogen?

  • Phagocytosis
  • Homeostasis
  • Photosynthesis

11. What is a vector?

  • A method that the immune system uses to protect us from pathogens
  • An insect that carries a protist but doesn't get infected
  • A type of fungi

12. How is HIV spread?

  • Sexual contact
  • Droplets in the air
  • Drinking contaminated water

13. How can pathogens be spread?

  • Droplets in the air
  • Cholera
  • Athletes foot

14. How is measles prevented?

  • Vaccination
  • Antiretroviral drugs
  • Antibiotics

15. What are three examples of viruses?

  • Malaria, Rose black spot and HIV
  • HIV, measles and tobacco mosaic disease
  • Salmonella, Gonorrhoea and Rose black spot

16. What are the different types of pathogens?

  • Platelet
  • Bacteria, Virus, Protists, Fungi
  • White blood cell

17. What is an example of a fungal disease?

  • Protist
  • Rose black spot
  • Malaria