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1 This question is about health.
(a) Which statements about health and disease are true and which are false? Tick
(✓) one box in each row.
True False
A healthy person has good mental and physical health.
An unhealthy person always shows symptoms of disease.
An unhealthy person is more likely to get other diseases.
Only pathogens cause disease.
[3]
(b) Draw lines to connect each treatment to the correct named disease it is used to treat.
Treatment Named disease
Cardiovascular
disease
Antibiotics HIV
Insulin Salmonella
Type 1 diabetes
[2]
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(c) Which two of these diseases are communicable? Tick
(✓) two boxes.
Cardiovascular disease
HIV
Salmonella
Type 1 diabetes
[2]
(d)
(i) Complete the sentences to describe the cause and transmission of malaria.
Use words from the list.
bacteria blood mosquito
protist urine virus
Malaria is caused by a type of pathogen called a ........................................................ .
It is transmitted when an infected person is bitten by a ........................................................ .
The organism sucks .................................................................. from the infected person and passes the
pathogen to another person when it bites them.
[3]
(ii) Suggest one way that the transmission of malaria can be prevented.
..........................................................................................................................................................
. .................................................................................................................................................................... [1]
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2 Fig. 2.1 shows part of a food web for a marine ecosystem.
Fig. 2.1
Marlin
Shark
Tuna
Mackerel
Shrimp
Copepod
Phytoplankton
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1 This question is about health.
(a) Which statements about health and disease are true and which are false? Tick
(✓) one box in each row.
True False
A healthy person has good mental and physical health.
An unhealthy person always shows symptoms of disease.
An unhealthy person is more likely to get other diseases.
Only pathogens cause disease.
[3]
(b) Draw lines to connect each treatment to the correct named disease it is used to treat.
Treatment Named disease
Cardiovascular
disease
Antibiotics HIV
Insulin Salmonella
Type 1 diabetes
[2]
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(c) Which two of these diseases are communicable? Tick
(✓) two boxes.
Cardiovascular disease
HIV
Salmonella
Type 1 diabetes
[2]
(d)
(i) Complete the sentences to describe the cause and transmission of malaria.
Use words from the list.
bacteria blood mosquito
protist urine virus
Malaria is caused by a type of pathogen called a ........................................................ .
It is transmitted when an infected person is bitten by a ........................................................ .
The organism sucks .................................................................. from the infected person and passes the
pathogen to another person when it bites them.
[3]
(ii) Suggest one way that the transmission of malaria can be prevented.
..........................................................................................................................................................
. .................................................................................................................................................................... [1]
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2 Fig. 2.1 shows part of a food web for a marine ecosystem.
Fig. 2.1
Marlin
Shark
Tuna
Mackerel
Shrimp
Copepod
Phytoplankton
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