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Class 8 Health: The Ultimate Treasure worksheet
CBSE Science. Communicable and non-communicable diseases, causes and spread, vaccines and antibiotics. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.
Sample questions
Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.
Section A · multiple choice
- 1.
According to the WHO, health means:
- being strong only
- eating a lot
- not having a fever
- physical, mental and social well-being, not just the absence of disease
Answer
(d) physical, mental and social well-being, not just the absence of disease
- 2.
Measles is caused by a:
- fungus
- roundworm
- virus
- protozoa
Answer
(c) virus
- 3.
Which of these is a COMMUNICABLE disease?
- goitre
- asthma
- diabetes
- measles
Answer
(d) measles
Section B · short answer
- 4.
What is the difference between a symptom and a sign?
Answer
A symptom is felt by the patient (pain); a sign can be seen or measured (fever, rash).
- 5.
What causes each — a virus, bacteria, protozoa or a roundworm? (a) typhoid (b) malaria
Answer
(a) bacteria (b) protozoa
Section C · long answer
- 6.
Explain how a vaccine protects us.
Answer
A vaccine contains a weakened or dead germ or a harmless part of it. It trains the body's defence system to recognise the germ, so if the real germ enters later, the body fights it quickly. Vaccines prevent disease; they do not cure it.
Fresh sheets for your child
In the app, every Health: The Ultimate Treasure sheet is new: the app remembers the questions your child has already had and leaves them out. Print the sheet as a PDF, or use notebook mode and write the answers in a notebook.
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