MIEH 300 MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW
QUESTIONS WITH 100% OUTLINED
ANSWERS
\.Environmental Health - ANSWERS✔-the study of public health that addresses
physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment
\.When did sanitation become important? - ANSWERS✔-Age of Industrialization
\.Charles Turner Thackrah - ANSWERS✔-Occupational Health
\.Alice Hamilton - ANSWERS✔-Occupational Health
\.Jon Snow - ANSWERS✔-father of epidemiology
\.Edwin Chadwick - ANSWERS✔-Social epidemiology
\.Rachel Carson - ANSWERS✔-Recognition of environmental hazards
, \.What are the five trends in environmental health? - ANSWERS✔-environmental
justice, focus on susceptible groups, scientific advances, global changes, moves
towards sustainability
\.What is ecology? - ANSWERS✔-The study of interactions between organisms and
their environment (biotic and abiotic)
\.Biodiversity - ANSWERS✔-the degree of variation of life in all its forms
\.What is included within ecological processes? - ANSWERS✔-population size,
birth rate, death rate, immigration, emmigration
\.carrying capacity - ANSWERS✔-Largest number of individuals of a population
that a environment can support
\.K-selected species - ANSWERS✔-long life span; larger adult size; few offspring;
high energy raising offspring; slow population growth; consistent population size
variability
\.r-selected species - ANSWERS✔-short life span; smaller adult size; reproduce
quickly; have many offspring; fast population growth; unpredictable population
size variability
\.What is necessary for maintaining the environment? - ANSWERS✔-sustainability
QUESTIONS WITH 100% OUTLINED
ANSWERS
\.Environmental Health - ANSWERS✔-the study of public health that addresses
physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment
\.When did sanitation become important? - ANSWERS✔-Age of Industrialization
\.Charles Turner Thackrah - ANSWERS✔-Occupational Health
\.Alice Hamilton - ANSWERS✔-Occupational Health
\.Jon Snow - ANSWERS✔-father of epidemiology
\.Edwin Chadwick - ANSWERS✔-Social epidemiology
\.Rachel Carson - ANSWERS✔-Recognition of environmental hazards
, \.What are the five trends in environmental health? - ANSWERS✔-environmental
justice, focus on susceptible groups, scientific advances, global changes, moves
towards sustainability
\.What is ecology? - ANSWERS✔-The study of interactions between organisms and
their environment (biotic and abiotic)
\.Biodiversity - ANSWERS✔-the degree of variation of life in all its forms
\.What is included within ecological processes? - ANSWERS✔-population size,
birth rate, death rate, immigration, emmigration
\.carrying capacity - ANSWERS✔-Largest number of individuals of a population
that a environment can support
\.K-selected species - ANSWERS✔-long life span; larger adult size; few offspring;
high energy raising offspring; slow population growth; consistent population size
variability
\.r-selected species - ANSWERS✔-short life span; smaller adult size; reproduce
quickly; have many offspring; fast population growth; unpredictable population
size variability
\.What is necessary for maintaining the environment? - ANSWERS✔-sustainability
