Infectious Disease Quiz #1 Study Guide:

Study resources include: science notebook and Science and Life Issues text.

A. Know five reasons for the cause of disease:

B. Diseases are categorized as infectious and non-infectious. Know the difference.

C. Vocabulary: definitions as they were discussed in today’s lecture.

*Disease– breakdown in the structure and function of a living organism.

Micro – a prefix used to indicate something that is “small.”

Trade-off – a balance achieved between two desirable but incompatible features; a compromise made in one area to obtain benefits in another; a bargain, a compromise.

*Infectious – having the quality to pass from one to another.

Evidence – an event, action or material object that brings clarity to a situation.

Closed population - population that is isolated from genetic material from the outside.

Infectious disease is spread either by:

1. direct contact – give an example

2. indirect contact – give an example

In the “transfer of disease activity” (swapping ‘saliva), what conclusions were drawn from our data about how disease is spread? Ways to prevent the spread of disease?

Conclusions drawn from the “Knowing About Disease” Activity - what did data show among the three generations. For example, be ready to apply knowledge given about a disease with those trends in data that were discussed.

Review types of trends in data (six different plots – bell curve, increasing slope of a line and so on…).

What is the importance in plotting data? (This is a review, folks!).

Know two primary reasons – along with your ideas!

Trends in data:

1. Identify various ‘trends’ (slope if a line) in data plotting either on a xy plot or a histogram.

2. Apply knowledge of a disease along with a plot to draw conclusions. We modeled this in class when discussing our “Knowing About Disease data (i.e generation data).

Review analysis questions in science notebook.