Map skills 1. Look at this shaded relief mapand name a city or town…
Question Answered step-by-step Map skills 1. Look at this shaded relief mapand name a city or town… Map skills 1. Look at this shaded relief map and name a city or town that is in the highlands of Ethiopia. Map Vocabulary 2. Explain why living near a pond might make you more susceptible to West Nile virus. -Here’s a link to the Center of Disease control page on malaria:CDC: West Nile Virus 3. According to the Center for Disease Control, do you think it’s likely that you would contract Legionnaire’s Disease while camping on a seacoast? -Link to the CDC page on Legionnaire’s Disease.CDC: Legionnaire’s Diseasehttps://www.cdc.gov/legionella/ -Link to video on Legionnaire’s DiseaseLegionnaire’s Disease: What You Need to Knowhttps://youtu.be/HB7g81JxCq0 Research4. What vaccines should you get before traveling to Angola? -Link to the Passport Health page for Angola:Passport Health 5. In what areas of the world is malaria found? What type of climate do the parasites that cause malaria live in? If global temperatures increase, do you think malaria might spread to other areas? 6. What areas of the world have a higher incidence of Multiple Sclerosis? What are some of the possible reasons why this is so? (Just list all the possible reasons you can think of.) -Link to Geography of Multiple Sclerosis.-Link to video on MS:Multiple Scherosis Foundationhttp://www.mult-sclerosis.org/facts.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l-o2G99IGk 7. Look at the CDC List of Infectious Diseases, and choose a disease that hasn’t been mentioned in this lesson. Answer the following questions about it:a. Name the disease.b. In what areas of the world is the disease most prevalent?c. Are there any known cures or vaccinations for the disease?d. How is the disease transmitted?e. What is the mortality rate for the disease among the world population?f. Has there been an outbreak of the disease in the last 10 years? If so, where?g. What are countries infected with the disease doing to prevent its spread? 8. When looking at the list of infectious diseases, you will notice that there are many more outbreaks in impoverished nations than in industrialized nations. Why do you think this is so?-Link to CDC page on Environmental Hazards and Health Effects:CDC: Environmental Hazards and Health Effects 9. Look up an environmental factor that can cause disease and answer the following questions about it:-The link in question 8 for the CDC Environmental Hazards and Health Effects page will help with this question as well. a. What is the environmental factor?b. What diseases can it cause?c. In what area or areas is this environmental factor more common?d. What can be done to lower the risk of disease from this environmental factor, if anything?e. Is this environmental factor caused by humans, or is it a natural occurrence? History US History SOCIAL STUDIES 123 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)
