BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL, DWARKA

CLASS IX- BIOLOGY

QUESTION BANK: Why do we fall ill?

Q1. (a)What is an epidemic disease?

(b) Which organ is affected if the person is suffering from jaundice?

Q2. (a) Which of the following diseases are protozoan in origin?

Dengue
(ii) Malaria
(iii)Kala Azar
(iv) HIV-AIDS

(b) Suggest two ways to prevent being infected by Protozoans.

Q3. (a) Why taking an antibiotic is not effective in common cold.

(b) Name 2 diseases against which infants below 1 year of age are vaccinated.

(c)List 2 symptoms of any one these diseases.

Q4. (a) Define health.

(b) State and explain in brief 4 major factors which are causes of a disease.

Q5.Match the following:

(a)
ORGANISM/BACTERIA DISEASE
Leishmania Worm
Staphylococci Kala Azar
Trypanosoma Acne
Ascaris lumbricoides Sleeping Sickness
(b)

I II
Fungal Disease Dengue Fever
Viral Disease Cholera
Protozoan Disease Skin Disease
Bacterial Disease Malaria
Q6. “High Blood pressure can be caused by excessive weight and lack of exercise”.Justify

Q7. (a)State in brief the principles of immunization.

(b) Name 2 diseases that can be prevented by immunization.

Q8. Differentiate b/w:

(a) Chronic and Acute diseases.

(b) Infectious and Non-Infectious diseases.
(c) Congenital and acquired diseases.

Q9. Give one eg. of each:

(a) Chronic and Acute diseases.

(b) Infectious and Non-Infectious diseases.

Q10. Name any one disease caused when the microbes target:

(a) Liver
(b) Lungs

Q11. Why we are normally advised to take bland and nourishing food when we are sick?

Q12. Why are antibiotics effective against bacteria (bacterial disease) but not viruses (viral
disease)?

Q13. State two consequences which one has to face while dealing with an infectious
disease.

Q14. a) Which system of our body is activated in response to infection and how it responds?

b) How HIV-AIDS virus affects and damages our body? Explain.

Q15. List 2 means of spreading of the infectious diseases.

Q16. What is human immune system? How immunization can be achieved?

OR

What is a vaccine? How immunization can be achieved?

Q17. a) Doctors diagnosed that Radha was suffering from HIV-AIDS. List 2 methods of which
she might have contacted the disease. Name the organ affected by this disease.
Mention the cause of death of people suffering from AIDS.

b) Why antibiotics cannot be used for its treatment? Justify your answer.

Q18. Ravi suffered from tuberculosis, while Rehman suffered from typhoid. Which disease
caused more damage and why?

Q19. a) If a person is suffering from Jaundice, name the mode of its transmission and the
organ affected by this disease.

b) List one general mode of presentation of Jaundice.

c) It has been observed that despite the availability of vaccine for Hepatitis A in the
market, it may not be necessary to give it to children by the time they are 5 years old.
Why?

Q20. a) Define antibiotic penicillin against bacterial infection?

b) Name one bacterial disease that spreads through contaminated water.

Q21. a) Write a few signs and symptom of a disease if brain is affected.

b) Give one local and one general effect of inflammation process.

Q22 (a) Which part of the body is infected by malaria causing microbe?

(b) What are the 2 ways to treat an infectious disease?

Q23. Name 2 water borne diseases.

Q24. a) Mention two factors on which severity of the disease manifestation depends?

b) Once you have been infected with small pox there is no chance of suffering from it
again. Give reasons.

Q25. What are the principles of treatment of a disease?

Q26. What are the symptoms shown by a person if (i) lungs get infected (ii) stomach gets
infected (iii) liver gets infected (iv) brain is infected?

Q27. A hefty boy of 12 years often picks fights with others. Do you think he is in good
health? If so, then explain your answer.
Q28. “Prevention of a disease is more desirable than its treatment.” Justify the statement by
discussing 3 major strategies to be adopted for the prevention of infectious disease?

OR

“Prevention is better than cure.” Justify the statement by discussing 3 major strategies to be
adopted for the prevention of infectious disease?

Q29 Why are we normally advised to take balanced and nourishing food when are sick?

Q30 If you visit a friend suffering from malaria, what are the chances of malaria spreading to
you?

Q31. What are infectious diseases? Give 2 examples. Name two infectious agents.

Q32. (a) Who discovered vaccine for the first time?

(b) Name 2 viral diseases which can be prevented using vaccines. What is immunity?

Q33. Write the causes, symptoms and preventions of (i) AIDS (ii) Hepatitis (iii) Malaria.

Q34. Name the infectious disease that leads to immunodeficiency. Write the name of
pathogen involved.

Q35. List 3 limitations which a person as to face while suffering from infectious disease.

Q36. Define immunity. Explain natural and acquired immunity.

Q37. Observe the example and complete the rest:-

E.g.:- Diabetes: Non communicable:: Chicken pox : communicable

(a) Pneumonia : acute :: tuberculosis : ___________

(b) Anthrax : Bacterial :: Elephantiasis : _______________
(c) AIDS : ___________ :: Encephalitis : Brain

Q38. What is immunization? Name 4 diseases that can be prevented by

vaccination/immunization?

Q39. In a slum area people are suffering from malaria. Mention the unhygienic conditions
that are prevailing there. Name the causative organism. List various preventive measures.

Q40. (a) Define disease.

(b)Explain briefly the 2 groups of causes of diseases.

Q41. It is diagnosed that Seema is suffering from malaria. Which organ of Seema is affected?
Name the pathogen responsible. What is the system of the disease?

Q42. How do diseases spread through air?

Q43. “Immune system is essential for our health.” Comment.

Q44. List 3 effects of infectious diseases.

Q45. Name the organism causing Kala Azar and sleeping sickness.

Q46. ‘In our country a majority of children are already immune to Hepatitis A without
getting vaccine.’ Justify giving 3 reasons.

Q47. Discuss 3 limitations to deal with infectious diseases.

Q48. Categories as acute or chronic or Infectious or Non infectious diseases:

Typhoid, TB, Goitre, Elephantiasis.

Q49. What are the 2 approaches to treat any infectious disease?

Q50. How can we prevent exposure to infectious microbes?

Q51. Why does female Anopheles mosquito feed on human blood?

Q52. On what factors do the severity of disease manifestation depends? Explain with
example.

Q53. How is principle of immunization implemented for eliminating polio?

Q54. What are vectors?

Q55. Identify the diseases that spread through the following needs. Also name the target
organs: (i) Sexual contact (ii) mosquitoes and (iii) from air via nose.

Q56. Mention the symptoms because of which you will visit a doctor and why?