Pathogens - Answers Organisms that cause disease
Infectious Disease - Answers Infections caused by pathogens
how do pathogens make yous sick? - Answers by damaging individual cells
how does your body prevent the spread of disease? - Answers by killing pathogens
how are different diseases caused? - Answers different pathogens control different diseases
What are the four major groups of human pathogens? - Answers protists, fungi, viruses, bacteria
how does bacteria hurt your body? - Answers pathogens directly damages the cells in your body or
produce toxins that damage cells
3 examples of bacteria caused disease - Answers ear infections, food poisoning and strep throat
1 example of a indirect bacteria caused diseased - Answers tetanus
How does a virus hurt your body? - Answers they cannot reproduce unless they are inside a cell, this
process damages or destroys the cell
2 examples of viruses - Answers colds and flues
Where does fungi grow? - Answers in warm, dark, moist areas
What are two examples of fungi caused diseases - Answers athletes foot and ringworm
What are 3 examples of protist caused diseases - Answers malaria, african sleeping sickness and amebic
dysentery
what are the ways your body can become infected by a pathogen? - Answers soil, food, water, infected
people, infected objects, infected animals
How are pathogens spread through infected people? - Answers through physical contact
How do soil food and water spread pathogens? - Answers pathogens contaminate food, soil and water,
these pathogens are created naturally in the environment
2 examples of diseases caused by soil, food and water - Answers cholera, dysentery
How do contaminated objects cause disease? - Answers you touch contaminated object and the
pathogens on it enter your body through your skin
How do infected animals cause disease? - Answers pathogens in animal are transferred when it bites
you