Water quiz for KS3: John Snow and water contamination #1

 

What was John Snow’s dad’s occupation?

Where, and in what year, was John Snow born?

As a youth, John Snow’s mind is described as ‘…inquisitive’. What does inquisitive mean?

How was John Snow able to go to school?

How old was John Snow when he was apprenticed to a doctor in Newcastle?

What disease did John Snow first come across in Newcastle?

Where did cholera originate?

What are the symptoms of cholera?

If you have cholera, what can the body eventually no longer form to keep itself alive?

What two things does excessive diarrhoea cause your body to lose?

What did John Snow do in 1836?

What did John Snow begin to study in London?

After cholera returned to London in 1848, what did John Snow do to get proof for his hypothesis (theory)?

Why did John Snow think that the cholera disease was ingested (swallowed)?

John proved his hypothesis, published his findings and shared them. Was he believed?