Health and Safety Quiz

The lifetime probability of developing lung cancer is 40 times greater for smokers than for nonsmokers. What kind of analysis is this?

• dose-response

• toxicology research

• precautionary principle

• risk management

• risk assessment

Asking how a given risk can be reduced is an example of ___.

• risk assessment

• toxicology research

• dose-response

• risk management

• precautionary principle

What kind of hazard is a criminal assault?

• cultural hazard

• lifestyle choice

• chemical hazard

• natural hazard

• biological hazard

Despite the declining risk of harm from infectious diseases, they remain serious health threats, especially in ___.

• less-developed countries

• more-developed countries

• polluted areas

• temperate regions

• industrialized areas

The deadliest virus in the world is ___.

• hepatitis B

• HIV

• measles

• the flu

• tuberculosis

The leading cause of death for people ages 15–49 worldwide is ____.

• AIDS

• smoking

• chemical hazards

• pneumonia

• tuberculosis

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has listed arsenic, lead, mercury, vinyl chloride, and polychlorinated biphenyls as ____.

• mutagens that repair DNA damage

• teratogens that damage embryos

• endocrine disrupters that act as hormones

• carcinogens that cause or promote cancer

• toxic chemicals that cause DNA damage

Methylmercury is a ____ that is especially dangerous because it persists in the environment and can be biologically magnified in food chains and food webs.

• carcinogen

• mutagen

• neurotoxin

• teratogen

• hormone blocker

Synthetic chemicals that are molecularly similar to hormones and interfere with the endocrine system are called ____.

• mutagens

• teratogens

• allergens

• carcinogens

• HAAs

Toxicity partly depends on ____, which determines an individual's sensitivity to a particular toxin.

• age

• persistence

• genetic makeup

• solubility

• dose