Lesson 4.2.2.5

4.2.2.5 Health issues Quiz: AQA Biology, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. What two aspects of well-being define overall health?

    • Financial and social
    • Environmental and chemical
    • Physical and mental
    • Dietary and genetic
  2. Which non-disease factor can significantly affect both physical and mental health?

    • Fingerprint pattern
    • Eye colour
    • Stress
    • Blood group
  3. What are the two main categories of disease that cause ill health?

    • Bacterial and viral
    • Communicable and non-communicable
    • Genetic and environmental
    • Acute and chronic
  4. A defect in the immune system makes a person more likely to suffer from what?

    • Nutritional deficiencies
    • Infectious diseases
    • Inherited conditions
    • Cardiovascular diseases
  5. Which type of pathogen living inside cells can act as a trigger for cancers?

    • Bacteria
    • Fungi
    • Viruses
    • Protists
  6. What condition can be triggered by an immune reaction initially caused by a pathogen?

    • Cancer
    • Allergies
    • Depression
    • Diabetes
  7. Which mental health condition can be directly triggered by severe physical ill health?

    • Anemia
    • Diabetes
    • Asthma
    • Depression
  8. Which allergic condition can be triggered by an immune response to a pathogen?

    • Cancer
    • Depression
    • Asthma
    • Malaria
  9. Which relationship between two variables can be identified using a scatter diagram?

    • Causation
    • Percentage
    • Frequency
    • Correlation
  10. Which graph type is commonly used to display frequency of disease incidence?

    • Line graph
    • Histogram
    • Pie chart
    • Scatter diagram
  11. What is the process of selecting a representative group from a population called?

    • Correlation
    • Incidence
    • Screening
    • Sampling
  12. Which diagram is suitable for displaying the frequency distribution of disease incidence?

    • Venn diagram
    • Scatter diagram
    • Flowchart
    • Bar chart
  13. Health is defined as a state of complete physical and which other well-being?

    • Environmental
    • Mental
    • Financial
    • Occupational
  14. Defects in the immune system mean an individual is more likely to suffer from what?

    • Nutritional deficiencies
    • Infectious diseases
    • Genetic disorders
    • Cancer triggers
  15. Which lifestyle factor can have a profound effect on physical and mental health?

    • Phagocytosis
    • Stress
    • Vaccination
    • Disinfection
  16. How can different types of disease be related to each other?

    • They act independently
    • They always cancel
    • They are identical
    • They can interact
  17. Which non-communicable disease can be triggered by viruses living inside human cells?

    • Asthma
    • Cancer
    • Diabetes
    • Depression
  18. Which of these is an example of a non-communicable disease from the specification?

    • Coronary heart disease
    • Malaria
    • Measles
    • Salmonella food poisoning
  19. What must epidemiological sampling achieve to enable valid conclusions about a population?

    • Random guesswork
    • Total population
    • Smallest sample
    • Representative group
  20. Besides non-communicable diseases, what other main disease type causes ill health?

    • Nutritional
    • Environmental
    • Genetic
    • Communicable

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