Environmental Health Hazards/Bacteria Quiz

Describe how biological hazards can be prevented or controlled.

• Proper sanitation and hygiene practices

• Exposure to sunlight

• Eating raw meat and uncooked eggs

• Drinking contaminated water

A disease causing agent:

• pollution

• carcinogen

• pathogen

• biomagnification

The U.S. organization that responds to diseases:

• EPA

• WHO

• HIPPO

• CDC

The study of diseases within the human population:

• ecology

• toxicology

• epidemiology

• biology

The process of measuring the chance that an environmental hazard will cause harm is called what?

• toxicology

• epidemiology

• dose-response relationship

• risk assessment

What are chemicals that cause cancer called?

• carcinogen

• hazard

• teratogen

• neurotoxin

Individuals respond similarly to the same environmental hazards 

• True
• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

A disease that is transmitted by a mosquito bite.

• Malaria
• Cholera
• Tuberculosis
• Antibiotics

the connection between the amount of substance an organism is exposed to and how it responds to that exposure

• dose-response relationship

• risk assessment

• genetics

• epidemiology

Identify the structures within the bacterial cell.

a

b

c

d

e

Pili

Ribosome

Nucleoid Region (DNA)

Flagellum

Plasmid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2