WorksheetsCh 20 Toxicology & Epidemiology
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 19mins
What are viruses, bacteria, and organisms in the environment that causes human health classified as?
social hazards
biological hazards
chemical hazards
physical hazards
What types of hazards does toxicology deal with?
biological and social
chemical and physical
human made
natural disasters
Infectious diseases are diseases caused by an organism such as a virus or a bacterium, which is called a:
pathogen
toxicant
pandemic
carcinogen
The process of measuring the chance that an environmental hazard will cause harm is called what?
toxicology
epidemiology
dose-response relationship
risk assessment
What is a disease that has appeared in the human population for the first time and is increasing rapidly called?
environmental
pandemic
emerging
infectious
What are chemicals that cause cancer called?
carcinogen
hazard
teratogen
neurotoxin
What hazards does epidemiology deal with?
physical
chemical
social
biological
What is a vector?
pathogen
organism that carries pathogen
type of infectious disease
type of emerging disease
When concentrations of toxicants increase each step up the food chain it is called?
biomagnification
toxicology
risk assessment
epidemiology
What is the effect as a result to exposure of a substance?
dose
response
toxicology
threshold dose
An intermediate host that transfers a pathogen or a parasite to another organism
Host
Vector
Particulates
Pathogen
