7th grade, Module 2 Vocabulary (Epidemics) | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Vocabualry words seen throughout the module/trimester

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Epidemologist

a scientist that studies the cause, spread, and containment of diseases in a population

10

Microbe

germs that cause disease

5

Gist

short summary of what the material is about

15

Social Contagion

ideas, behaviors, or emotions that spread rapidly through groups

20

Epidemic

an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly to many people

10

Paraphrase

putting the text into your own words

15

Close readers do these things before they read...

preview, predict, chunk

10

Close readers do these things while they read...

annotate, define, check

10

Inference (infer)

make an educated guess

5

Epidemology

the study of how diseases spread through a population

15

Contagious

easily spread or passed around

5

Conformity

tendency for an individual to align their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with those of the people around them.

15

Patient zero

the first person to catch a disease

15

Transmission

the act of transferring something from one spot to another

10