Environmental Hazards and Human Health

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

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

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

Which disease usually (in most years) causes the most deaths per year worldwide? 

Which of these is an example of a transmissible or infectious disease?

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

Which is an example of a hormonally active agent?

How many people are currently living with AIDs in the world? (as of 2019)

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

What type of hazards are unsafe working conditions?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is BPA?

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

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

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

What percentage of Americans have BPA in their blood?

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

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

What percentage of chemicals being used are not regulated?

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

What does it mean for a chemical to exhibit persistence? 

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

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

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

A group of toxic chemicals that cause cancer

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