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GERMS
B Y : A R M A A N M E H TA
GERMS
• There are many different kinds of germs.The main four are: bacteria, fungus,
protozoa, and viruses.
• Not all germs are bad. Some help your immune system and other organs work.
Some give you sicknesses.
BACTERIA
• A few micrometers long.
• Some have been left behind in fossils.
• Makes their own food out of: sunlight, iron, and tiny pieces of left-over food.
• Able to swim, glide, and ‘walk’.
• There are two kinds of bacteria: rods and cocci.
VIRUSES
• AKA ‘infectious agents’.
• Don’t eat anything since they are dead blobs of biochemical.
• Not all viruses are bad.The bad ones are called ‘pathogenic viruses’.
• There are two main types of viruses: the rhino and the influenza.
FUNGUS
• Has the ability to multiply.
• Causes cancer, disease, and other damage.
• There are 5.1 million species of fungi just in your body!
• Thrives in warm, moist places on and in your body.
PROTOZOA
• Its name means ‘first animal’.
• Gets food through pores in its body.
• Latches onto things with cilia (tiny hairs).
• Usually won’t harm the human body.
• Has the ability to multiply.
Cilia
HOW PEOPLE GET SICK
• People get sick by touching other people who they don’t know have been checked
for germs.
• Shaking hands, hugging, high-fiving, fist bumping, and sharing food all fall under
that category.
• Germs are transferred easily from person to person.
PREVENTING GERMS
• Always wash your hands after contact with a stranger.
• Blow your nose so that fungi won’t form.
• Eat healthy meals.
• Clean cuts, scrapes, and scratches immediately so that you don’t get infected.
• Wear bug-spray.
PICTURES
CONCLUSION
• Most germs are good but some could be bad.
• Germs are easily spread.
• There are four main types of germs: protozoa, bacteria, fungus, and viruses.
• Preventing pathogenic germs from making you sick.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Brain
• Parents
• They’re Alive (Book)
• The Microbiology Companion (Parents’ book)
• www.microbeworld.org
• Kidshealth.org/on/kids/germs.html