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1
What is our Graduate TA's first name?
Jake
Jacob
James
Joshua
2
The CERCLA Priority List contains what?
A list of hazardous substances
Industries known to pollute the most
Endangered species
A list of important toxicology studies
3
True/False: Science drives policy, and policy drives scientific conclusions
FALSE
TRUE
4
Which famous event lead to the Clean Water act of 1970?
Wastewater wells in Eagle Ford, Texas
Hazardous water treatment in Chester, Pennsylvania
PCB contaminated soil in Warren, North Carolina
Burning of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio
5
If you've conducted a cohort study, what calculation do you perform to estimate a link between exposure and outcome?
Odds relative risk
Related risk
Odds ratio
Relative risk
6
The EPA and Department of the Interior are in what branch of government?
Cogress
Legislative
Judicial
Exceutive
7
Erin Brockovich took on utility company misconduct related to overexposure of what metal?
Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium (VI)
Lead
8
Which of the following best describes a carcinogen?
A chemical that causes death in an exposed animal
A chemical deemed safe by the EPA
A chemcial that can lead to or increase the risk of cancer
A chemical that disrupts the hormones of an animal
9
Which food item is the most succeptible to metal contamination due to bioaccumulation?
Beef
Pork
Fish
Wheat
10
Who dug wells that were responsible for arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh?
United States EPA
Bangladeshi Government
George Harrison
UNICEF
11
What are realistic strategies for reducing malaria and leishmaniasis transmission (select all that apply)?
Insecticide-impregnated bed nets
Avoiding mosquitoes and sandflies
Treat homes with long-tem insecticides
Distributing bug spray
12
Exposure to high concentrations of toxic metals most likely occur where?
In occupational settings
In a cave
House paint
Well water
13
True/False: Private and public organizations influence the policy cycle.
TRUE
FALSE
14
This is the kind of study where you manipulate exposure variables
Intervention/Experimental
Case-Control
Ecological
Cohort
15
Which Demographic Stage describes a community with high fertility and high mortality?
Stage 2
Stage 1
Stage 3
Stage 4
16
Metals essential to human health include (select all):
Iron
Aluminum
Zinc
Cadmium
17
This refers to when mortality shifts from communicable diseases to chronic disease
Epidemiologic Transition
Population Dynamics
Epigenetic Changes
Environmental Risk Transition
18
The "E" in ADME, represents which of these?
Exposure
Epidemiology
Excretion
Environment
19
T/F: Climate change will likely decrease decrease zoonotic diseases in temperate zones.
FALSE
TRUE
20
A chemical that can make another harmless chemical become toxic is an example of?
Synergism
Antagonism
Potentiation
Intoxication
21
John Snow (the old one, not the GoT one) made env epi famous by studying what in london?
Cholera
British dental hygeine
Syphillis
Malaria
22
Which of the following is not a term that describes a component of epidemiology?
Hills Criteria of Causality
Prevalence
Odds ratio
Concurrence
23
Environmental health laws are enforced by which of the following (Select all that apply)
US EPA
State
World Health Organization
Federal
24
Which factor(s) affect the toxicity of a chemical?
Individual Senisivity
All of these affect toxicity
Route of exposure
Duration of exposure
25
A chemical with a Lethal Dose 50 (LD50) tells us any level of that chemical is dangerous.
FALSE
TRUE
26
If plague is still somewhat wipespread, why no repeat of the Black Death from the 1300s?
Modern treatments are more effective
The bacteria is not very virulent
We have evolved stronger immunity
People who get it now are quickly quarantined
27
True or False: NOAEL is a threshold predicting the level at which a chemical has no observable toxic effects.
TRUE
FALSE
28
Which of the following is NOT one of the three P's of environmental health?
Population
Pollution
Poverty
Public
29
What is the replacement fertility rate for a stable population?
2.1
4.1
0.1
1.1
30
The process of risk assessment includes which of the following: (Select all that apply)
Dose-response assessment
Exposure assessment
Hazard Identification
Risk Characterization
31
Which of the following is not normally a form of bias?
Subjective decisions by Investigator
Healthy Worker Effect
Long latency periods for disease
Confounding
32
True/False: Toxicity from heavy metal exposure is of little concern for men.
FALSE
TRUE
33
True or False: A dose response curve typically is a mostly straight, declining line?
TRUE
FALSE
34
If you calculated a RR between an exposure and a health endpoint to be less than one, what does this tell you?
Odds of disease development is high
It tells you nothing
Exposure lacks any significance
Exposure is protective
35
Which of the following help us assess whether an env variable is linked to a disease?
Hill effect of determination
Hills Causal Reasoning
Hills Criteria of Causality
Hill William Elegy
36
T/F: DDT has been banned worldwide.
FALSE
TRUE
37
Arboviral disease means what?
Vector of transmission is an arthropod, such as a mosquito
The disease comes from rodents
Disease spread by plants
None of these are related to arboviral disease
38
If malaria is not endemic to the US, why do we still get new cases every year?
Misdiagnosis of malaria
Malaria actually is endemic to the US
These are just small and isolated outbreaks
Almost all of the cases are contracted overseas
39
3/5 dentists recommend a certain toothpaste. This ratio is known as what?
Malpractice
Prevalence
Incidence
Cohort
40
Which of the following could be a vector of disease transmission? (Select all that apply)
Fruitbats
Rodents
A water well
All of these are examples of vectors
41
When two covariates are related to both each other and to disease risk, what is this called?
Confounding
Confocal variables
Relative risk
Co-founders
42
The precautionary principle encompases potential threats to:
Wildlife
Environment
Human health
All of these
43
True/False: Toxicity from heavy metal exposure is of special concern in women and children.
FALSE
TRUE
44
True or False: Any chemical can be toxic, given the appropriate dose
TRUE
FALSE
45
T/F Any chemical that is found to have any level of risk will be banned
TRUE
FALSE
46
Individual dose-response curves match the population dose-response curve?
FALSE
TRUE
47
True/False: Lyme diseases cases are evenly distributed across the 50 states?
TRUE
FALSE
48
If an environmental exposure Odds Ratio were greater than 1, what does this mean?
positive association for disease
No associate of disease
OR doesn't predict disease
negative association for disease
