Final Review

Public drinking water utilities are protected under:

If malaria is not endemic to the US, why do we still get new cases every year?

True or False: NOAEL is a threshold predicting the level at which a chemical has no observable toxic effects.

Over the last 100 years, glaciers have been…

What is our Graduate TA's first name?

True or False: Any chemical can be toxic, given the appropriate dose

The 10 in PM10 refers to:

Examples of mobile sources of air pollution are: (Select all that apply)

True/False: Toxicity from heavy metal exposure is of special concern in women and children.

True or False: DDT saves more lives than it harms

Arboviral disease means what?

Which of the following are classes of insecticides? Choose all that apply:

T/F: Climate change will likely decrease zoonotic diseases in temperate zones.

Which Demographic Stage describes a community with high fertility and high mortality?

T/F Watersheds are defined by topography and can vary in size.

Worldwide, what is the primary source of indoor air pollution?

Which is NOT an anthropogenic source of radiation?

Return incentives for recycling of products has shown to improve recycling behavior.

T/F: Environmental injustice is a public health issue

This radiation involves high energy photons that can inflict damage up to 1 cm in the skin?

True/False: Private and public organizations influence the policy cycle.

The precautionary principle encompases potential threats to:

Which factor(s) affect the toxicity of a chemical?

T/F: The air quality index focuses on acute health effects possible due to local air quality.

Which of the following help us assess whether an env variable is linked to a disease?

Who dug wells that were responsible for arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three P's of environmental health?

Which President is usually credited with first bringing EJ issues into the enviro conversation?

A chemical with a Lethal Dose 50 (LD50) tells us any level of that chemical is dangerous.

True/False: Toxicity from heavy metal exposure is of little concern for men.

What is the replacement fertility rate for a stable population?

The process of risk assessment includes which of the following: (Select all that apply)

What is a unique feature that makes the U.S. the largest users of water in volume per capita?

Which is believed to be a stochastic outcome of radiation exposure?

A chemical that can make another harmless chemical become toxic is an example of?

What are typical components of a landfill? Select all that apply

This refers to when mortality shifts from communicable diseases to chronic disease

What accounts for the greatest proportion of radiation exposure in the U.S.?

Which is (are) true of leachate? Select all that apply

T/F: EJ is meant to protect susceptible populations, who are usually well-defined in federal law

John Snow (the old one, not the GoT one) made env epi famous by studying what in london?

Which areas are of most concern for water stress or scarcity? Select all that apply.

Compared to ionizing radiation, non-ionizing has:

T/F: The US Congress has generally been supportive of EJ by providing baseline funding for these initiative.

What is an example of a hydrocarbon?

If you calculated a RR between an exposure and a health endpoint to be less than one, what does this tell you?

Which of the following statements about incineration is incorrect?

Which of the following is NOT a form of non-ionizing radiation?

T/F: Data shows that recycling programs were key in reducing solid waste generation per person.

T/F: Particulate matter is a common by-product of wood and diesel fuel combustion.

True/False: Science drives policy, and policy drives scientific conclusions

Environmental health laws are enforced by which of the following (Select all that apply)

T/F: Air pollution is defined as the presence of any man-made substance in the air that is harmful

Where do arid regions of southern California draw their drinking water?

This chemical was removed from roadsides in NC, then landfilled in Warren County

Which of the following will eliminate pesticide and POP exposure? Choose all that apply.

True or False: A dose response curve typically is a mostly straight, declining line?

T/F Any chemical that is found to have any level of risk will be banned

T/F: Stanley Watras is a classic example of how ELF exposure from high tension wires is dangerous.

How much more expensive is bottled water than tap water?

T/F: DDT has been banned worldwide.

This is the kind of study where you manipulate exposure variables

3/5 dentists recommend a certain toothpaste. This ratio is known as what?

How are Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons formed?

True/False: The secondary stage of sewage treatment focuses on microbial digestion of sewage

Pesticides are regulated under which act?

Metals essential to human health include (select all):

What's a LULU?

If you've conducted a cohort study, what calculation do you perform to estimate a link between exposure and outcome?

T/F: Ionizing radiation comes from human and natural sources

T/F: Clean-up of river PCBs shows how POP producers can quickly reduce hazards

What is the primary component of photochemical smog?

The "E" in ADME, represents which of these?

T/F: Ionizing radiation describes radiation that can remove electrons from their atoms.

Potential impacts of climate change include: (Select all that apply)

Erin Brockovich took on utility company misconduct related to overexposure of what metal?

Which food item is the most succeptible to metal contamination due to bioaccumulation?

Sunburn is attributed to which exposure? Select all that apply.

Which of the following are common hazardous by-products of landfills? Select all that apply

If plague is still somewhat wipespread, why no repeat of the Black Death from the 1300s?

When two covariates are related to both each other and to disease risk, what is this called?

Why do bisphenols concern some consumers and scientists? Select all that apply

Individual dose-response curves match the population dose-response curve?

If an environmental exposure Odds Ratio were greater than 1, what does this mean?

Which famous event led to the Clean Water act of 1970?

Which is not a criteria air pollutant regulated by the EPA?

What is the main source of contamination at Shingle Mountain in Dallas TX?

True or False: DDT is highly toxic to humans

The least favored strategy for solid waste management is?

Which of the following is not a term that describes a component of epidemiology?

The CERCLA Priority List contains what?

Which of the following is not normally a form of bias?

The London Fog that killed thousands in 1952, was the result of air pollution and what event?

True/False: Lyme diseases cases are evenly distributed across the 50 states?

Which geographic of the country utilizes the largest proportion of waste to energy?

What are the key concerns of POPs in the environment? Choose all that apply:

To date, almost all EJ related policy is directed by what legal tool?

Exposure to high concentrations of toxic metals most likely occur where?

What are realistic strategies for reducing malaria and leishmaniasis transmission (select all that apply)?

An aquifer is…