90% of transportation energy is provided by petroleum such as

One major way to reduce energy use is to increase human-powered transportation such as (pick two)

Another way to reduce energy is to drive more energy-efficient vehicles like

Combined fossil fuels and fats

this utilizes recently living matter or by-products of decomposition as an energy source

Environmental advantages are reduced with resource-intensive agriculture, deforestation, reduced biodiversity and c sinks,

these vehicles are 4x more efficient than gas-powered vehicles

electric vehicles are easy and cheaper to maintain

Electric vehicles are emission-free to run

the charging station, battery sourcing and life, range anxiety are all _____ of electric vehicles

Fuel cell vehicles typically use hydrogen fuel

What do hydrogen fuel cells emit

fuel cells faster and go longer ranges than battery electric vehicles

constraints of fuel cells are production, H gas is stored at high pressure energy-intensive, costly, limited refueling, not always green sources of hydrogen

Many countries have set goals to be free of gas and diesel vehicles

Norway wants to be free of gas by

Germany and India want to be gas-free by 2030

California and China want to be free of gas by

General Motors is going all-electric by

lighten vehicles and it reduced rolling

energy used by home electronics when devices are turned off but still plugged in

combined heat and power systems capture waste heat from power plants and use it as an additional source of heating AND cooling

Many factors affecting our health are determined by our environment

Older homes that are not well maintained have high levels of lead from

What are the 3 branches of environmental health?

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specific populations.

John Snow found cholera was more prevalent near certain public pumps that were used by households for

Cholera still happens a lot, and there were 600K cases in ____ in 2017

The study of negative health effects of substances on an organism

as new energy resources gain traction global energy use continues to

In 2009 expanded production and technological advances in solar panel and wind turbine design began to drive costs down rapidly. Since then, the cost of wind and solar have declined by

pumped storage hydro uses an uphill and downhill hydropower gradient to generate

Molten rock or salt has been used to generate

the united states has _ times fewer employees working in the solar power industry

what is the interconnected chain of machines throughout North America transferring energy

which state was the first with a renewable portfolio standard

____ is needed to manage varied supply from large municipal to small residential electricity production and demand

Something you need for pumped storage hydropower is

Solar and wind have very little capacity to store and

cost of wind and solar energy has

Transitioning to alternative energies wold involve a combination of market forces, innovations, infrastructure improvements, government policy, and individual action

Pros of self-driving cars are

self driving vehicles reduction in CO2 is equal to planting ____ trees per year per bus

Tesla, Waymo, and Mercedes are working on developing clean energy cars

cogenerate energy increases yield but is still connected to a fossil fuel power plant so not a

this occurs when water inundates land that is normally dry, especially through intense rainfall or rapid snowmelt

ABNORMAL RISE OF MARINE WATERS GENERATED BY A STORM OVER AND ABOVE THE PREDICTED TIDE

warmer weather encourages populations of disease carriers like ticks and mosquitoes to increase

CDC believes the incidence of West Nile virus may decline

There is a new vaccine for West Nile being made aimed at children

Love Canal near Niagara Falls was a great place to live and was not built on a chemical dumpsite

This happened in Love Canal

During the 1860s what profession suffered from mercury poisoning?

In the US we allowed the _____ people to work with uranium even after we knew it was harmful.

The two major issues Environmental Justice identifies are.....

Who was the first women to teach at Harvard medical school and devoted her career to make sense of toxicology?

How does DDT impact the environment?

In 2001 the Stockholm Convention decided to do what with DDT

Volatility describes what?

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) can evaporate under normal indoor conditions

Diarrheal diseases affect the digestive tract and is the 2nd leading cause of death

pathogens that cause these diarrheal diseases are transmitted through drinking water contaminated by

Can diarrhea be fatal

infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in human

AIDS/HIV is transmitted by

What makes population more vulnerable to infection

Water soluble substances dissolve easily in water and move quickly into the _____ when ingested

Which is an example of a water soluble substance

Fat soluble substances accumulate in the body fat of animals are are released ____ the body overtime as fat is burned

Most of the common Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) are what

Where does exposure to pollutants occur

What do we do in Iowa to prevent exposure to pollutants

respiratory infections affect the lungs and airways

__________ cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year

tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that affects the lungs and kills more than 1 million people per year

Respiratory infections also cause

microorganisms that cause illness or infection when they take up residence in our bodies