Curiosity: World’s Dirtiest Man Name _________________________ CORE_____

Video Segments:

Segment 1: Living Things on Our Body

1. ______________________How many bacterial cells live on the average person?

2. ______________________What percentage of cells in a human body is bacterial?
3. Facts or Interesting Moments
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Segment 2: Fountains of Bacteria in the Bathroom

1. ______________________List some of the “bad” bacteria that you will find in or on a toilet?
2. _____________________On a toilet bowl about how many bacteria could be found?
3. ______________________Bacteria can “fly” upwards of how many feet when a toilet is flushed?
4. ______________________On rare occasions Staph infections can lead to inflammation of what major organ?
5. _____________________E.Coli can lead to damage of what major organ?

Segment 3: Parasites in the Kitty Litter

1. ______________________Toxoplasma Gondii, which is a parasitic protist (living single cell organism), found in kitty
litter, can be dangerous for what type of women?
2. _____________________The parasites make their way to your brain and promote the release of what?
3. Facts or Interesting Moments
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Segment 4: Organisms in our Digestive System

1. ______________________There are over how many of nematodes (parasitic worms) living in sea creatures?
2. _____________________How many pounds on average does a human carry around in their gut?
3. Facts or Interesting Moments
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Segment 5: Is a Dog’s Mouth Cleaner than a Human’s Mouth?

1. _____________________What type of meter is the Doctor using to measure the amount of bacteria on the surface?
2. Identify the numbers of the “Dirty Scale”
a. ______________________Safe Zone
b. _____________________Cause for Concern
c. _____________________Super Microbe Zone
3. ______________________According to the ATP meter whose mouth was cleaner, man or dog? What was the
microbial #?
4. _____________________What type of worm causes a “itchy anus?”

Segment 6: Files Spreading Bacteria

1. _____________________Name the type of bacteria that would be easy to get from a fly landing on poop then your
food.
2. Facts or Interesting Moments
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Segment 7: Sweat, Food for Bacteria

1. ______________________Sweat is rich in what that bacteria love to gorge on?

2. ______________________Feet smell due to bacteria eating the amino acids from sweat and then do what?
3. ______________________Athletes foot fungus feed on what?
4. Facts or Interesting Moments
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Segment 8: Spreading Germs on an Airplane

1. _____________________Coughing and Sneezing can carry what?

2. _____________________Coughs project thousands of bacteria and can move upwards of 7 feet away traveling how
fast?
3. ______________________The cough measured what number on the ATP meter? What zone does that fall under?
4. _____________________How many droplets traveled in one second during the sneeze?
5. ______________________The sneeze measured what number on the ATP meter? What zone does the fall under?
6. _____________________At least what percent of the population had forehead mites on their forehead?

Segment 9: Dust Mites in Bed

1. ______________________What do dust mites eat?

2. ______________________How many dust mites are found on the average mattress?
3. Facts or Interesting Moments
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