Disease: Types and Causes

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Disease: Types and Causes: Overview

In this topic, we will learn what a disease looks like. It includes activities to illustrate the topic. It emphasizes acute diseases, chronic diseases and the poor health they lead to. It also highlights the causes of disease.

Important Questions on Disease: Types and Causes

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Choose the diseases that occur suddenly and last for a few days.

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Cold is an example of chronic disease.

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What are the examples of acute diseases.

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How signs are different from symptoms of a disease explain?

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The disease that has a long term effect on the health of a person is _____.

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Any condition that interferes with the normal body functions due to some reasons is called:

(Hint- The word begins with the letter D.)

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Alok ate fruit salad from a roadside vendor. The fruits had been cut and exposed to dust and flies. What type of diseases has he exposed himself to? 

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Define the term incubation period.

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The ailments which can last for a long time, even as much as a lifetime, are called _____.

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Meghan left school early on Tuesday as she was suffering from common cold. The next day, Meghan’s classmate Rita fell sick too. Why did this happen?

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“ Good habits lead to a healthy life" – Based on this statement, identify the odd picture among the following pictures,

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The micro-organisms _____is a protozoan that causes sleeping sickness in human. 

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Which of the following is a mismatch

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Fever,delirium,slow pulse,abdominal tenderness and rose coloured rash indicate the disease

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Oral rehydration solution does not contain

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_____ diseases are present since birth due to genetic disorders.

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_____is the mineral whose deficiency causes anaemia.

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_____ include single-celled living things such as yeast and multicellular clusters such as mushrooms.

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_____ are a eukaryotic organism which include Yeasts, moulds and mushrooms.

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_____ disease is caused by the malfunctioning of the vital organs of the body.