Exam 15: Environmental Health

The biggest single component of household trash by weight is yard waste.

Discuss ways to prevent chemical pollution.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been linked to long-term health consequences including cancer and damage to the central nervous system.

Greenhouse gas is a gas or vapor that traps infrared radiation instead of allowing it to escape through the atmosphere, resulting in a warming of the earth.

Batteries and fluorescent lights are not recyclable and should be thrown into the trash.

Define environmental health, and briefly describe why the field of environmental health was created.

What is causing an increase in the earth's atmospheric temperature?

What chemicals are used primarily for two purposes: to prevent the spread of insect-born disease and to maximize food production by killing insects that eat crops?

Air pollution is a new problem.

Describe various types of indoor air pollution and one way it has affected you personally.

The field of environmental health grew out of efforts to control communicable diseases.

The factors that contribute to population growth do not include

What does the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency call the measurement that indicates whether air pollution levels pose a health concern?

What is the biggest single component of household trash by weight?

Indoor mold is an indoor air pollutant.

Which element has created unsafe levels in the blood of 500,000 children one to five years old, according to the CDC?

Describe the Air Quality Index's five major air pollutants.

Which suggestion could help protect the water supply?

Residents of poor and minority communities often receive more exposure to environmental toxins than people who live in wealthier communities.

Chemical pollution is a new problem created by humans in the last 300 years.