Unit 5: Disease causes & Prevention - Multiple Choice Questions & Fill In The Blanks - General Science For Class IX (General Group)

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UNIT 5: DISEASE CAUSES & PREVENTION
Multiple Choice Questions

Encircle the appropriate answer:
1. Malaria is caused by:
a) Virus
b) Bacteria
c) Fungi
d) Protozoan ✓

2. Goitre is caused by:
a) Endocrine malfunction ✓
b) Viral infection
c) Bacterial infection
d) Nutritional deficiency

3. Which one is viral disease:
a) Small Pox ✓
b) Tetanus
c) Typhoid
d) Cholera

4. BCG vaccine is used for treatment of:
a) Influenza
b) Tetanus
c) Tuberculosis ✓
d) Hepatitis

5. Influenza is caused by:
a) Air ✓
b) Drinking water
c) Mosquito
d) Shake hand

6. Body fluid containing the enzyme lysosome:
a) Saliva
b) Gastric Juice
c) Pancreatic Juice
d) Tears ✓

7. Heroin is a:
a) Stimulant
b) Hallucinogen
c) Narcotic ✓
d) Causative drug

8. A type of psychosis:
a) Schizophrenia ✓
b) Anxiety
c) Hysteria
d) Depression

9. Which of the disease is not caused by viruses?
a) Polio
b) Typhoid ✓
c) Flue
d) Measles

10. Amoebic dysentery is caused by:
a) Parasites ✓
b) Viruses
c) Bacteria
d) Fungus

11) MMR is the Vaccine against:
a) HIV/AIDs
b) Hepatitis
c) Measles ✓
d) Small pox

12) Jaw-lock or lock-jaw is caused by:
a) Cholera
b) Typhoid
c) Tetanus ✓
d) Diphtheria

13. Malaria is caused by:
a) Vibrio cholerae
b) Variola
c) Mycobacterium
d) Plasmodium ✓

14. Which disease is caused by blood transfusion?
a) Tuberculosis
b) Diphtheria
c) AIDS ✓
d) Typhoid

15. Caffeine in tea and cocaine that comes from cocoa plant are:
a) Stimulant ✓
b) depressant
c) Narcotics 
d) None of these

16. Hepatitis ___ virus called delta antigen:
a) A
b) B
c) C 
d) D ✓

17. AIDS is caused by ___ virus.
a) HIV ✓
b) HAV
c) Vibrio Coma
d) Salmonella Typhae

18. Small pox is a disease caused by a virus called:
a) Mycobacterium
b) Delta antigen
c) Variola ✓
d) Plasmodium

19. Small Pox has been eradicated by:
a) Medicines
b) Sanitation ✓
c) Vaccination
d) Immunity

20. _______is a disease caused by Virus.
a) T.B.
b) Whooping Cough
c) Measles ✓
d) Ring Worm

21. _____ is a disease of Inflammation of Liver.
a) Pneumonia
b) AIDS
c) T.B.
d) Hepatitis ✓

22. ______ is a disease of alimentary canal caused by bacteria.
a) Cholera
b) Whooping Cough
c) Diphtheria
d) Typhoid ✓

23. ______ results into dehydration of body.
a) AIDS
b) T.B.
c) Cholera ✓
d) Diphtheria

24. _________ is caused by a protozoan called Plasmodium.
a) Cholera
b) Malaria ✓
c) Athlete's Foot
d) Tetanus

25. _______ is treated by Quinine and Chloro Quinine.
a) Malaria ✓
b) T.B.
c) Typhoid
d) AIDS

26. Living beings spreading or carrying germs are called:
a) Antibodies
b) Lysozyme
c) Vectors ✓
d) Fungi

27. The Germicide enzyme is called:
a) Pepsin
b) Amylopsin
c) Lysozyme ✓
d) Lipase

28. _______ is a poisonous compound found in the tobacco smoke.
a) Caffeine
b) Nicotine ✓
c) Morphine
d) Heroin

29. ______ is a mental disease of Psychosis.
a) Pneumonia
b) Schizophrenia ✓
c) Amphetamine
d) Bronchitis

30. ______ is an internal parasite.
a) Ascaris ✓
b) Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
c) Vibrio Coma
d) Anopheles

31. _______ creates paralysis effects and the patient becomes lame.
a) Influenza
b) Poliomyelitis ✓
c) Small Pox
d) Diphtheria

32. _____ do not have root, stem and leaves.
a) Algae
b) Fungi ✓
c) Virus
d) Bacteria

33. _______ is caused by the virus Variola.
a) AIDS
b) Influenza
c) Small Pox ✓
d) Typhoid

34. BCG vaccine is inoculated in the disease of ________.
a) Hepatitis
b) T.B. ✓
c) Cholera
d) Malaria

35. Hepatitis is the swelling of:
a) Stomach
b) Liver ✓
c) Intestine
d) Throat

36. The Haemophilia is a disease of:
a) Blood ✓
b) Body
c) Brain
d) Nervous

Fill In The Blanks with appropriate terms:

1. The condition which disturbs the normal functioning of body is called disease.
2. Haemophilia is a/an hereditary disease.
3. Disease causing agents are called pathogens.
4. Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium mycobacterium.
5. Nicotine enters your body by cigarette smoking.
6. Dependence on a drug is called drug addiction.
7. Depressant drugs slow down the functioning nervous system.
8. Stimulant drugs speed up or increase the functioning of the nervous system.
9. A disease is an abnormal functioning of the body.
10. Disease may be the result of diet deficiency , heredity factor, endocrine gland malfunction, aging or infection of a pathogen.
11. Pathogens are disease causing organism.
12. Pathogens may be viruses, bacteria fungi, protozoans or worms.
13. Polio, small pox, influenza, measles, AIDS and hepatitis are the common viral diseases.
14. Ring worm and athlete's foot are common fungal diseases.
15. Antibiotic and vaccines kill the pathogen and thus cure the diseases.
16. Germs are spread by air, through contaminated edibles, by vector, by direct contact or by body fluids.
17. Sterilization, good hygiene, vaccination, killing of vectors and proper treatment of patient and the germ carriers can eliminate the diseases.
18. Smoking may cause a number of diseases to smokers and to the people around them.
19. Drugs are cure but their abuse is always injurious.
20. Drug makes you drug addict and by affecting your nervous system makes you sick.
21. Narcotics like heroin make the life of the addict and his family miserable.
22. Most of the disease agents are microscopic so they are also called microbes.
23. Influenza is commonly or generally called flu.
24. Widal test is performed for the diagnosis of typhoid.
25. Fungal infection is called mycosis.
26. Disease is a condition which develops when the body becomes imbalanced.
27. In aging, Heart diseases and joint pain is experienced.
28. The organisms which cause the diseases are called Pathogens.
29. Small microscopic germs causing diseases are called Microbes.
30. Bacteria are the common kind of living organisms on earth.
31. Protozoans are unicellular microscopic living beings.
32. Ascaris is a Parasitic Worm.
33. The virus polio grows in throats and Intestine.
34. The small pox is caused by a virus called Variola.
35. The virus of AIDS is called HIV.
36. Hepatitis A is generally called Jaundice.
37. The bacterium causing Tuberculosis is called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.
38. Tetanus is caused by the Spores of a bacterium.
39. In Tetanus the muscles of jaws are infected and a condition is developed which is called Locked Jaws.
40. Typhoid is a bacterial disease which develops in the Alimentary Canal.
41. The contagious disease caused by Fungus is called Athlete's Foot.
42. Malaria spreading by a unicellular germ namely Plasmodium.
43. Malaria is a common protozoan disease caused by the bite of female Anopheles mosquito.
44. Immunity means resistance against the attack of the germs.
45. The smoke of Tobacco has 1000 harmful chemical compounds.
46. Tar is a brown sticking substance which deposits in the lungs of smokers.
47. Legally Narcotics are used as painkillers and for checking cough.
48. Nervous break down is a non technical term which is used for many mental diseases.
49. Schizophrenia is a kind of Psychosis.

Write whether the following statements are true or false:

1. Diabetes is a viral disease. False
2. HIV virus is responsible of hepatitis. False
3. Influenza is caused by drinking contaminated water. False
4. DPT is an effective vaccine against tetanus. True
5. Malaria can be controlled if Anopheles mosquitoes are killed. True
6. AIDS and hepatitis can spread by using old needles or syringes. True
7. W.B.Cs are important germ killer in blood. True
8. Heroin is obtained from opium. True
9. MMR vaccine is given to children at the age of 15 months. True
10. Whooping cough is the disease of aged people. False
11. The sputum of cough contains blood emitted by a T.B. patient. True
12. Hepatitis is also called Jaundice. True
13. Polio virus attacks on Nervous System. True
14. AIDS is caused by HIV virus. True
15. Robiola virus causes German Measles. False
16. Ring worm infection is caused by a fungus called Tinea. False
17. Typhoid disease is caused by a virus. False
18. Athlete's foot is a contagious disease. True