Worksheet No :3

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Class :IX /A/B/C/D Subject : Biology

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Date : 17/11/2021 D.O.S. : 22/11/021

L- 13 Why do we fall ill?

1. Mention the significance of proper and sufficient food in preventing the diseases.
2. Name two diseases caused by bacteria and two diseases caused by viruses in humans.
3. Giving examples list the various ways through which diseases spread.
4. A chronic disease considered more serious than acute disease. Justify.
5. The pathogen shown in the following figure causes AIDS in human beings. Answer the following
questions about this pathogen.

i) Name the pathogen.

ii) Which system/ part of the body does the pathogen target?
iii) List three ways in which this pathogen can be transmitted from an infected person to a healthy
person.
6. What is a vaccine? How does it provide immunity against a disease?
7. Why are communicable diseases also called infectious diseases?
8. List any three ways of preventing air-borne diseases.
9. Classify the given diseases into infectious and non-infectious diseases.
Chikungunia, AIDS, diabetes, anaemia, malaria, pneumonia, colourblindness, typhoid
10. Gita and Sita are of the same age and both live in the same locality. Gita is an active and healthy
child while Sita falls ill very frequently? Suggest the possible reasons for this based on your
understanding of health and diseases.
11. Prevention of a disease is better than cure. Justify.
12. a) We should not allow the breeding of mosquitoes in our surroundings. Give reason.
b) Suggest any two ways in which breeding of mosquitoes can be prevented.
MCQs
1. Which one of the following is not important for individual health?
a) Good hygiene b) good economic condition
b) c) social equality and harmony d) living in a large and well furnished house

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2. Vectors can be defined as:
a) Animals that carry infectious agents
b) person who is infected by microbes
c) The microbes which cause the disease
d) Biochemical pathways of the infectious agents
3. A person living in an over-crowded and poorly ventilated house is prone to which of the
following types of disease?
a) Water-borne diseases b) Deficiency diseases
c) Air-borne diseases d) Vector-borne diseases
4. The Japanese encephalitis or brain-fever is caused by:
a) Bacteria b) Protozoa c) Fungi d) Virus
5. Making anti-viral medicines is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because:
a) Viruses use host cell machinery
b) Viruses have a protein coat
c) Viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
d) Viruses are a link between living and non-living
6. Which one of the following is not a chronic disease?
a) Chicken pox b) Tuberculosis c) Elephantiasis d) Diabetes
7. Who is credited with the invention of the small-pox vaccine?
a) Louis Pasteur b) Robin Warren c) Barry Marshall d) Edward Jenner
8. Select the water-borne disease from the following.
a) Cholera b) Measles c) Pneumonia d) Malaria
9. A general principle of fooling the immune system by putting a particular disease causing agent
into the body is called ______
a) Inoculation b) Meditation c) Vaccination d) Fortification
10. Diseases which have very drastic long term effects are called ______________
a) Acute b) Pandemic c) Chronic d) Epidemic
11. Match the terms in column A with suitable column B and select the correct option:
A B
1. Leishmaniai) Sleeping sickness
2. Helicobacter ii) Acne
3. Trypanosoma iii) Kala azar
4. Staphylococcus iv) Peptic ulcer
a) 1 – i), 2 – iv, 3 – ii, 4 – iii
b) 1 – iii, 2 –i, 3 – iv, 4 – ii

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 c) 1 – i), 2 – iv, 3 – ii, 4 – iii
d) 1 – iii, 2 – iv, 3 –i, 4 – ii
12. Identify the incorrect statement/s from the following:
a) Small pox virus is very closely related to cow pox virus.
b) Disease may be due to infectious or non-infectious causes.
c) Disease can be classified as acute or chronic depending upon their means of spread.
d) Laboratory tests are recommended by physicians to pinpoint a disease.

The following questions consist of two statements each printed as Assertion and Reason. While
answering these questions, you are allowed to choose any one of the following four responses:
A. If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
B. If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
C. If Assertion is true but Reason is false.
D. If both Assertion and Reason are false.
1. Assertion – Diseases in which microbes are the immediate causes are called infectious
diseases.
Reason – Infectious diseases are communicable.

2. Assertion – Antibiotics are very effective in treating bacterial diseases.

Reason – Antibiotics block biochemical pathways important for the bacteria.

3. Assertion – Prevention of diseases is more desirable than its treatment.

Reason – Treatment of a disease does not necessarily destroy the pathogen in the body.

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