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Ecosystems PreTest
1. Two of your friends are sick, one with a bacterial and one with a virus. They both receive
antibiotics. What might the outcome be for each of your friends?
The friend with the bacterial sickness will get better with the antibiotics. However, the friend with
the virus will remain sick because antibiotics don’t do anything for viruses.
2. Matching
Match the disease to the organism that causes it. Each organism may appear more than once.
__B____ 1. Common Cold
__B____ 2. Rabies
___D___ 3. Yeast Infection
___A___ 4. Tetanus
A.
B.
C.
D.
Bacteria
Virus
Protist
Fungi
___A___ 5. Salmonella
__D____ 6. Ring Worm
___B___ 7. HIV/AIDS
___C___ 8. African Sleeping Sickness
___A___ 9. Staph
___C___ 10. Malaria
___D___ 11. Athlete’s Foot
__B____ 12. Ebola
___A___ 13. Ecoli
___B___ 14. Influenza
__A____ 15. Strep Throat
3. What fly carries the disease of African Sleeping Sickness?
4. What animal can transfer the Malaria disease if bitten by it?
5. Name 3 symptoms of the common cold.
6. How does Athlete’s Foot spread?
7. How many people can be affected by E-coli?
8. How is Tetanus spread?
9. Is there a cure for AIDS?
10. How old do you have to be to get the Influenza shot?
11. True or False. Staph is spread world-wide.
12. What do the medicines for Ringworm help prevent?
13. True or False. Ebola is commonly found in Europe.
14. How does one contract the Rabies disease?