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MedMyst Disease Defenders: Quiz
1) You form a hypothesis by turning a research question into a:
a) Specific question
b) Testable statement
c) Lab Experiment
d) Data table
2) If bees were hypothesized to be the most likely source of a disease outbreak, does the data
below support this hypothesis?
a) Supports the hypothesis
b) Does not support the hypothesis
c) We can’t tell
3) An epidemiologist is a scientist who specializes in:
a) Investigating pathogens in a laboratory
b) Caring for the health of animals
c) Treating people that are sick
d) Tracking disease outbreaks
4) What is the dependent variable in the following hypothesis?
“If we vaccinate dogs against rabies, then dogs will not get rabies when bitten by an animal
that has rabies.”
a) Vaccination in animals
b) Dogs
c) Rabies in dogs
d) Animal bite
5) An epidemiologist collects data to determine if an outcome is connected to:
a) An exposure
b) A specific case
c) A case-control study
d) A vaccine
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6) In a laboratory setting, what does PPE mean?
a) Pathogen protective equipment
b) Personal practice equipment
c) Personal protective equipment
d) Personal protective elevator
7) An animal is suspected to have anthrax. Which of the following should be used as a positive
control to help diagnose the animal?
a) An animal known to have anthrax
b) An animal known not to have anthrax
c) An animal with an unknown health status
d) An animal that lives on a farm
8) To find out if people have been exposed to a disease, epidemiologists typically ask people to:
a) Get a vaccination
b) Fill out a questionnaire
c) Provide a blood sample
d) Provide a urine sample
9) The following hypothesis was tested and the results are shown in the table below.
“If fertilizer is added to the rose bushes, then the Erwin’s essential Fertilizer will grow the
rose bush the highest, followed by the Reed’s Richest and Clark’s Concoction.”
Type of Fertilizer
Height (ft)
Control
2 ft
Erwin’s Essential
2.5 ft
Reed’s Richest
4 ft
Clark’s Concoction
3 ft
Based on the results the hypothesis can be:
a) Rejected
b) Supported
c) We can’t tell
10) The independent variable in an experiment is the variable that you:
a) Measure a change in
b) Change on purpose
c) Change on accident
d) Do not change at all
11) A patient is suspected to have the flu and needs to be tested. What negative control sample
should be used to help interpret the test results?
a) A sample from a person who does not have the flu
b) A sample from a person who has the flu change on accident
c) A sample from a pig that has swine flu
d) A sample from the patient suspected to have the flu
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12) To make sense of their data, epidemiologists organize their data into a:
a) Four-by-four table
b) Two-by-two table
c) Four-by-two table
d) Six-by-two table
13) The dependent variable in an experiment is the variable that you:
a) Leave unchanged
b) Accidentally change
c) Measure a change in
d) Purposefully change
14) A hypothesis describes how changing the __________ variable will affect the __________
variable.
a) controlled; independent
b) controlled; dependent
c) dependent; independent
d) independent; dependent
15) A necropsy in animals is similar to _______ in people.
a) a transplant
b) leprosy
c) an autopsy
d) dialysis
16) A microbiologist is a scientist that specializes in:
a) Investigating pathogens in a laboratory
b) Caring for the health of animals
c) Tracking disease outbreaks
d) Treating people that are sick
16) Which of the following is a hypothesis?
a) Are there bacteria on a doorknob?
b) If we take samples, then there will be bacterial growth from the doorknob.
c) There might be a lot of bacteria on a doorknob.
d) If we take samples from the doorknob, then bacteria will grow when the sample is
placed on a growth medium.
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