Environmental Hazards and Human Health

What type of hazards are chemicals in our soil, food and air?

What type of hazards are smoking,drinking, food choices?

The term that describes the amount of a chemical that kills all of the subjects. 

Diseases that cannot be contracted from another person fall into which category?

A group of toxic chemicals that cause harm to a fetus.

What type of hazards are pathogens that can infect humans and animals?

Which disease causes the most deaths per year worldwide? 

What are the dirty dozen?

_____________ -deciding if or how to reduce a particular risk and at what cost

What is BPA?

The study of harmful effects of chemicals on humans and other organisms .

What type of hazards are fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and storms?

What is it called when a response to a chemical is a long lasting or permanent illness?

Which disease tends to be spread for years without the person knowing they are spreading it?

What is one of the major ways that humans introduce mercury into the environment?

A group of toxic chemicals that cause cancer

What percentage of Americans have BPA in their blood?

Which is not an example of an acute effect to a chemical? 

What does it mean for a chemical to exhibit persistence? 

What percentage of chemicals being used are not regulated?

How many people are currently living with AIDs in the world? (as of 2008)

Which of these is an example of a transmissible disease?

What did Ray turner do to make an impact on the environment?

What is the most common method to determine toxicity of chemicals?

Which hazard is one that can take the most years off of your life HERE IN THE USA?

- Not using a chemical if there is reasonable but incomplete data that it could cause harm

Which is an example of a hormonally active agent?

When a disease is spreading on a local scale it can be said to be a/an___________________

Which is NOT a reason for the growing resistance to antibiotics?

What did Ray turner do to make an impact on the environment?

Process of using statistics to estimate how much harm a hazard can cause?

What type of hazards are unsafe working conditions?

The probability of suffering harm from a hazard that can cause injury, disease, or damage. 

Which is NOT an example of a non-transmissible disease?

Which factor would be least likely to play a role in someone's accepted dose of a chemical?