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Question
The hair follicles produce ______ which keeps the hair smooth.
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Solution
The hair follicles produce oil which keeps the hair smooth.
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Given a crossword puzzle. Read the clues across and clues downward, and fill up the blank squares. Check up your performance with the correct solution given at the end.
Clues across
- Category of the pathogen that causes diseases, like common cold and mumps.
- These may readily grow in your hair if you do not wash it regularly.
- This is the vaccine for preventing tuberculosis.
- Cover this part of your body by a handkerchief while sneezing to prevent droplet infection to others.
- The disease pertussis is popularly known as whooping
- One of the most common insects which visit our exposed foods and contaminates them.
- A disease that weakens the body’s defense system
8. Germ or germ – substance introduced into the body to prevent the occurrence of an infectious disease.
9. A disease in which the eyes, the skin, and the urine turn yellow.
10. An organ usually affected by tuberculosis.
11.A disease caused by the bite of an infected dog, and which affects the central nervous system.
Answer the following questions:
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Beri-beri | (a)Vitamin C |
| 2. Anaemia | (b)Vitamin D |
| 3.Scurvy | (c)Vitamin A |
| 4. Rickets | (d)Vitamin `B _1` |
| 5. Goitre | (e)Iron |
| 6. Night blindness | (f)Iodine |
Multiple choice questions. Tick (✓) the correct choice:
Kwashiorkor is a disease caused by
- microbes
- deficiency of nutrients
- environment
- defects in body organs
Answer the following question:
Give the symptoms of kwashiorkor and marasmus.
Mention the causal organisms of the following diseases:
Typhoid
Which of the following statement are true (T) and which ones are false (F)? Mark T or F:
Filariasis is caused by worms.
Crossword Puzzle
DOWN
- A disease caused due to the bite of a mad dog. (6)
- Kwashiorkor and marasmus are caused due to the deficiency of this food component. (7)
- A disease causing bleeding gums. (6)
ACROSS - A disease due to deficiency of vitamin D. (7)
- Diabetes is caused due to deficiency of this hormone. (7)
- The deficiency of this mineral causes anaemia. (4)
Sleep is not only good for our body, but it is also good for ______.
Your friend says that her hair is thin, spares and lost very often. Suggest your ideas to reduce this problem.
