Fun Science for Kids Quiz about Viruses

• True or False? Viruses are non-living and they don't eat.

• True or false? Sometimes viruses that normally infect animals can jump to humans

• Can Antibiotics kill a virus?

• What kills viruses?

• How do Viruses travel from host to host?

• How do Viruses spread to plants?

• Do Viruses have legs?

• Can insects transmit Viruses?

• What is the correct full bacteriophage structure of the virus?

• When do Viruses reproduce themselves?

Watch the introduction to the film and complete the text with the words from the box

fingerprints agents of diseases ancestors sparked the explosion

opinion emergence

This is the journey of the imagination that may change your ___________________of who you are and where you
come from. Viruses, once solely thought to be the _______________________________and death, may have actually
given rise to our spices.

They are our___________________. If we respect humans, I think we have to respect the viruses that made them.

Startling discoveries are also revealing that viruses have left their__________________________ throughout evolution.
They may have ____________________________________________of complex life, change the way the young are born and
be responsible for love itself.

The notion that viruses are simply harmful is absurd.

Today the handy work of viruses is far from over. And some could even imagine that in future the viruses
could lead the ___________________________of new human spices.

Life on the planet would not be life on this planet without viruses.

Do you agree or deisagree with the outlined idead? Are they hard to believe?
Part 1 (1’31’’ – 4’55’’) A SCI FI PLOT

VOCABULARY WORK

1. to sound like a script for a sci fi movie

2. the dark confines of a cavernous laboratory
3. a visionary scientist
4. the descenders of these creatures
5. tiny robots
6. massive assaults
7. brigade of machine like invaders
8. inject a piece of genetic code into a cell
9. to explode releasing a new brigade of replicants
10. on evidence being compiled from all over the globe

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. Who is Dr Villarreal? What exactly does he do in his cavernous laboratory?

• Weave stories
• Write sci fi plots
• Research a bizarre cast of microscopic creatures

2. Why is he called a visionary scientist? Is he impractical or is he the one who can foresee future?
3. Why do most people have a fearful reaction when they hear the word “virus”?
4. What does Villarreal suspect about the creation of every creature on the planet?
5. Why are his ideas controversial?
6. How do viruses invade the cell? Use the following phrases to describe their attacks: tiny robots, massive
assaults, brigade of machine like invaders, inject a piece of genetic code into a cell, explode releasing a
new brigade of replicants.

OVER TO YOU

1. Have you ever heard about Villarreal’s ideas or the ideas similar to his?
2. Do you think it is worth researching his way?
 Part 2 (4’56’’ – 12’05’’) A VAST UNKNOWN WORLD

VOCABULARY WORK

1. the true extent of their domain

2. hot zone for virus hunters
3. teem with life
4. animal diversity
5. to lurk these jungles
6. poised to launch further assaults
7. viral jumps
8. through trapping or butchering
9. expose people to a myriad of viruses
10. primate virus
11. tracking a virus
12. to rearrange the basic blue print of DNA
13. obliterating the cell’s DNA
14. explode the cell into oblivion
15. to integrate themselves into the genetic diversity of their host
16. progeny

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. Why is Nathan Wolfe’s occupation called ‘hunter’?

2. Why are Cameroon jungles the hot zone for virus hunters?
3. What virus is Wolfe stocking? Why?
4. How often do viral jumps happen? When?
5. What did Wolfe’s initial results reveal? What was the striking discovery?
6. What power do the viruses that Wolfe’s tracking have?
7. What is the mission of a virus attack?
8. What happens to a cell and a virus after it intrudes a cell?
9. When could our DNA blueprint be altered?
10. How do viruses act after the virus and the host merge?

Part 3 (12’06’’- 15’05’’) JUNK DNA

VOCABULARY WORK

1. Virtually identical
2. Junk DNA
3. bits and pieces of genetic code that litter the blueprint of chimpanzees
4. genetic remains of ancient retroviruses
5. to redraw their blueprint
6. evolutionary dead ends
7. beneficial for survival
8. marks the distinction
9. be involved in differentiating our linage
10. involved in differentiating our linage
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. What can retroviruses explain?

2. How similar are chimps ‘and human DNA?
3. What is junk DNA?
4. What did the viruses integrated in the primates start doing?
5. What makes the distinction of our evolution from our closest relative?