Environmental Health Hazards Quiz

Explain how social hazards, such as poverty and lack of access to healthcare, can impact environmental health.

• Social hazards only impact individual health, not environmental health

• Social hazards can improve environmental health

• Social hazards have no impact on environmental health

• By increasing exposure to pollutants, reducing access to clean water and sanitation

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

Define the dose-response curve and explain its significance in assessing the health effects of environmental hazards.

• The dose-response curve measures the distance a substance can travel in the environment.

• The dose-response curve shows the relationship between the color of a substance and its taste in an organism.

• The dose-response curve shows the relationship between the dose of a substance and the response or effect it produces in an organism.

• The dose-response curve indicates the speed at which a substance breaks down in the environment.

A disease causing agent:

• pollution

• carcinogen

• pathogen

• biomagnification

Check 2 types of environmental hazards:

• biological

• toxicity

• WHO

• social

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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

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A disease that is transmitted by a mosquito bite.

• Malaria
• Cholera
• Tuberculosis
• Antibiotics