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Disease Detectives flashcards with vocabulary like contagious, pathogen, bacteria, and influenza for elementary science.
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This 24-card flashcard set introduces Grades 4–5 students to disease vocabulary and concepts, including contagious and non-communicable diseases, pathogens, bacteria, viruses, and specific conditions like tuberculosis and influenza. The set covers body systems affected by disease (eye, bones, skin, stomach) and terms like outbreak, epidemic, and carcinogen. Use it for health and science vocabulary review or as a supplementary resource during a disease prevention or human body systems unit.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Biology
Grade Level:
4th – 5th Grades
Updated March 2026

Terms in This Set

  • Outbreak
  • Epidemic
  • Contagious
  • Chronic
  • Acute
  • Tuberculosis
  • Virus
  • Influenza
  • Pathogen
  • Carcinogen
  • Mold
  • Bacteria
  • Germ
  • Fever
  • Cancer
  • Communicable
  • Eye
  • Bones
  • Skin
  • Stomach
  • Non-Communicable
  • Plasmids
  • Bacterial DNA
  • E. Coli

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