Environmental Health and 11.1 Quiz

Substances that contaminate the environment and can harm people are ___________________.

• Siblings

• Dirt

• pollutants

• germs

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Infectious diseases are diseases caused by a...

• pathogen

• virus

• bacteria

• germ

Which one is NOT a mechanisms by which infectious diseases are transmitted?

• Humans

• Water and Food

• Organisms

• Weather

An emerging diseases is a disease that:  Has appeared in the human population for the _____ time.

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd

• 4th

What are viruses, bacteria, and organisms in the environment that causes human health classified as?

• social hazards

• biological hazards

• chemical hazards

• physical hazards

the study of how poisons affect an organism's health

• epidemiology

• earthquake

• toxicity

• toxicology

the movement of earth caused by shifting tectonic plates

• tornado

• landslide

• earthquake

• hurricane

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a type of windstorm in which a a funnel of rotating air drops down from a storm cloud an touches Earth's surface

• tsunami

• tornado

• volcano

• hurricane

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a chemical that can damage the nervous system

• carcinogen

• neurotoxin

• teratogen

• allergen

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The study of how environmental factors affect human health & quality of life:

• environmental health

• biodiversity

• population ecology

• biology

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