Air Borne Diseases

Q.

What is an air-borne disease? Give examples.

Q.

Which of these is a communicable disease?

1. Tuberculosis

2. Common cold

3. All of the above

4. Chicken pox

Q.

All microbes are not pathogens. Justify

Q.

Name one disease which spreads by breathing in air containing micro-organisms.

Q. Foot and mouth disease of cattle is caused by a virus.

1. True
2. False

Q. Name the following:
A bacterial disease caused due to contaminated water.

Q. is an airborne disease which spreads when droplets containing pathogens are expelled into the air.

1. Typhoid
2. Hepatitis A
3. Tuberculosis

Q. Give two example of each of the following :
Disease which spread through air

Q.

Mention when the following days are celebrated in India :
(a) Leprosy Day
(b) World AIDS Day
(c) World Tuberculosis Day
(d) World Health Day

Q. Put a tick mark (✓) against the correct alternative in the following statements: Which one of the following is a communicable disease?

1. Allergy
2. Heart attack
3. Cancer
4. Measles

Q. Put a tick mark (✓) against the correct alternative in the following statements: Hay fever and asthma are

1. Allergic diseases
2. Deficiency diseases
3. Organic diseases
4. Genetic diseases

Q.

The above diagram represents ___ diseases.

Q.

Explain the different means of spreading infectious diseases.

Q. Put a tick mark (✓) against the correct alternative in the following statements: Ring worm is caused by

1. Protozoan
2. Virus
3. Fungi
4. Bacteria

Q. Write the micro organisans causing the following diseases
i) Kala azar
ii) sleeping sickness
iii) Acne

Q.

Common cold is __________disease.

Q.

What are pathogens?

Q.

High blood pressure is an infectious disease.

1. True
2. False

Q. If you live in a overcrowded and poorly ventilated house, it is possible that you may
suffer from which of the following diseases:

1. Cancer
2. AIDS
3. Air borne disease
4. Cholera

Q. Give an example of a disease that can spread through a bite of an animal.

Q.

Choose the correct option and complete the statements.

Aedes spreads _____________.

1. malaria

2. yellow fever

3. elephantiasis

4. typhoid

Q. Tuberculosis, commonly called T.B., is a viral disease common among poor people living in ill-ventilated, congested societies in big cities.

1. True
2. False

Q. Transmission of diseases can be ________

1. Coordinated
2. Indirect
3. Direct
4. Both C and D

Q. Disease-causing microbes are called:

1. Gut flora
2. Pathogens
3. Microorganisms
4. Fungi

Q. Which of the following causes infectious diseases?

1. Pollutants
2. Harmful lifestyle
3. Microorganisms
4. Inheritance

Q.

Give another name for sleeping sickness.

Q. The disease caused by viruses is

1. AIDS
2. Polio
3. All of the above
4. Common cold

Q. is an airborne disease which spreads when droplets containing pathogens are expelled into the air.

1. Tuberculosis
2. Typhoid
3. Hepatitis A

Q. Infectious diseases do not pass from one person to another.

1. True
2. False

Q. Which of the following is a water-borne disease?

1. Chicken pox
2. Cancer
3. Common cold
4. Cholera