STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS For Hotzone 2011
Pre AP Biology STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS for “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston
You may write on these sheets but if you are concerned about the legibility of your handwriting type up each question followed by your answers/reading notes.
Note: Please work independently. This is one of my main request for the year. You will learn more if you do your own work.
Reading Section I:
PART I: “THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON”
Something in the Forest
1. Describe the life of Charles Monet. What were his “hobbies”?
2. Where is Mount Elgon? Describe the surrounding environment.
3. Describe the symptoms experienced by Charles Monet in the days following his visit to Kitum cave.
4. How did Dr. Musoke become infected?
Diagnosis
5. Which is the worst of the filovirus “sisters”? What is the kill rate in humans?
6. Describe the information provided by “Mr. Jones” concerning the Marburg virus.
7. What is one general theory for the origin of AIDS?
A Woman and A Soldier
8. Who is Nancy Jaax?
9. How did Nancy Jaax cut her hand? Why is this significant?
Project Ebola
10. What does USAMRIID stand for?
11. Describe the brief history of Biological Weapons in the U.S.
12. What kinds of precautions were necessary for Nancy Jaax to be able to work in Biosafety Level 3 conditions? What problems did she face?
13. How did Nancy Jaax end up working in Biosafety Level 4?
14. Describe the first known emergence of the Ebola virus. How did it get its name ?
15. Describe the effects of the Ebola virus. How does it appear to be spread?
Total Immersion
16. Describe the symptoms exhibited by the monkeys that were infected with Ebola.
17. Describe the structure of a typical virus.
18. What “scare” did Nancy Jaax have while working with Ebola?
19. What happened to the Ebola infected monkeys? What became of the healthy monkeys? How?
Reading Section II:
Ebola River
20. Describe Ebola Sudan.
21. Describe Ebola Zaire.
22. Describe the
You may write on these sheets but if you are concerned about the legibility of your handwriting type up each question followed by your answers/reading notes.
Note: Please work independently. This is one of my main request for the year. You will learn more if you do your own work.
Reading Section I:
PART I: “THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON”
Something in the Forest
1. Describe the life of Charles Monet. What were his “hobbies”?
2. Where is Mount Elgon? Describe the surrounding environment.
3. Describe the symptoms experienced by Charles Monet in the days following his visit to Kitum cave.
4. How did Dr. Musoke become infected?
Diagnosis
5. Which is the worst of the filovirus “sisters”? What is the kill rate in humans?
6. Describe the information provided by “Mr. Jones” concerning the Marburg virus.
7. What is one general theory for the origin of AIDS?
A Woman and A Soldier
8. Who is Nancy Jaax?
9. How did Nancy Jaax cut her hand? Why is this significant?
Project Ebola
10. What does USAMRIID stand for?
11. Describe the brief history of Biological Weapons in the U.S.
12. What kinds of precautions were necessary for Nancy Jaax to be able to work in Biosafety Level 3 conditions? What problems did she face?
13. How did Nancy Jaax end up working in Biosafety Level 4?
14. Describe the first known emergence of the Ebola virus. How did it get its name ?
15. Describe the effects of the Ebola virus. How does it appear to be spread?
Total Immersion
16. Describe the symptoms exhibited by the monkeys that were infected with Ebola.
17. Describe the structure of a typical virus.
18. What “scare” did Nancy Jaax have while working with Ebola?
19. What happened to the Ebola infected monkeys? What became of the healthy monkeys? How?
Reading Section II:
Ebola River
20. Describe Ebola Sudan.
21. Describe Ebola Zaire.
22. Describe the