L1 Communicable Diseases

• Science
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

L1 Communicable Diseases

What makes you healthy?

What makes you unhealthy?

What causes communicable diseases?

1. Poor diet and pathogens
2. Lack of exercise and toxins
3. Poor diet, lack of exercise and stress
4. Pathogens or the toxins they produce

What is a pathogen?

How do bacteria make us feel unwell?

1. They release antitoxins into our bodies
2. They release toxins into our bodies
3. They release antibodies into our bodies
4. They engulf and digest our body cells

What is good health?

1. Good physical and mental well being
2. It is just being free from diseases
3. Good physical, mental and social well being
4. Good mental and social well being

Obesity

Mental health problems

Tuberculosis

Arthritis

Diarrhoeal diseases like cholera

Pathogens

Lack of clean water

Stress 

Poor diet

Non-communicable disease

State three different factors that cause ill health.

Cancer

Ebola

Coronavirus

HIV

Heart disease

Diabetes

Asthma

Influenza

Communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases

Explain the difference between communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases

Viruses contain DNA true or false

1. True
2. False

Viruses have mitochondria

1. True
2. False

Viruses do not have nucleus

1. True
2. false

Viruses are not the smallest thing that can cause diseases

1. true
2. false

How do viruses make us feel unwell?