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Ch 20 Toxicology & Epidemiology

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

social hazards

b)

biological hazards

c)

chemical hazards

d)

physical hazards

2.

What types of hazards does toxicology deal with?

a)

biological and social

b)

chemical and physical

c)

human made

d)

natural disasters

3.

Infectious diseases are diseases caused by an organism such as a virus or a bacterium, which is called a:

a)

pathogen

b)

toxicant

c)

pandemic

d)

carcinogen

4.

The process of measuring the chance that an environmental hazard will cause harm is called what?

a)

toxicology

b)

epidemiology

c)

dose-response relationship

d)

risk assessment

5.

What is a disease that has appeared in the human population for the first time and is increasing rapidly called?

a)

environmental

b)

pandemic

c)

emerging

d)

infectious

6.

What are chemicals that cause cancer called?

a)

carcinogen

b)

hazard

c)

teratogen

d)

neurotoxin

7.

What hazards does epidemiology deal with?

a)

physical

b)

chemical

c)

social

d)

biological

8.

What is a vector?

a)

pathogen

b)

organism that carries pathogen

c)

type of infectious disease

d)

type of emerging disease

9.

When concentrations of toxicants increase each step up the food chain it is called?

a)

biomagnification

b)

toxicology

c)

risk assessment

d)

epidemiology

10.

What is the effect as a result to exposure of a substance?

a)

dose

b)

response

c)

toxicology

d)

threshold dose

11.
A disease that has appeared in the human population for the first time or that has existed for a while, but is increasing rapidly or spreading around the world is called
a)
environmental
b)
pandemic
c)
emerging
d)
infection
12.
Toxicology is the study of how disease affects organisms’ health 
a)
True
b)
False
13.
Individuals respond similarly to the same environmental hazards 
a)
True
b)
False
14.
Humans usually have developed strong resistance to emerging diseases. 
a)
True
b)
False
15.
A person can die from drinking too much water, too quickly. 
a)
True
b)
False
16.
The study of toxic substances
a)
Biology
b)
Toxicology
c)
Epidemiology
d)
Pathogens
17.
The amount of a harmful chemical that a person is exposed to is
a)
Persistent Chemical
b)
Dose-Response Curve
c)
Dose
d)
Threshold Dose
18.
A chemical that breaks down slowly in its environment is
a)
Persistent Chemical
b)
Threshold Dose
c)
Dose
d)
Epidemiology
19.
The amount or dose of the chemical being exposed
a)
Threshold Dose
b)
Epidemiology
c)
Dose-Response Curve
d)
Toxicology
20.
The study of the spread of disease
a)
Toxicity
b)
Toxicology
c)
Epidemiology
d)
Science
21.

An intermediate host that transfers a pathogen or a parasite to another organism

a)

Host

b)

Vector

c)

Particulates

d)

Pathogen

22.
Particles in the air that are small enough to breathe into our lungs are
a)
Pathogen
b)
Particulates
c)
Host
d)
Vector
23.
An organism in which a pathogen lives
a)
Host
b)
Parasite
c)
Vector
d)
Pathogen
24.
A disease caused by a parasitic protist and is transmitted by a bite
a)
Malaria
b)
Cholera
c)
Tuberculosis
d)
Antibiotics
25.
Dose affects everyone the same
a)
True
b)
False