MIEH 300 MIDTERM EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
\.Environmental Science is the study of the natural processes that occur in the
environment and how humans can affect them.
It is an INTERWEB OF: - ANSWERS✔-Humans
Natural Resources
Pollution
\.Environmental scientists often make recommendations based on probabilities
rather than precise answers.
True or False? - ANSWERS✔-TRUE
\.Mold that triggers Asthma is an example of what environmental health hazard?
Biological
Chemical
Physical
Genetic Traits - ANSWERS✔-Biological
,\.What term refers to the desire to conquer and exploit nature as quickly as
possible?
Deforestation
conservation
resources
frontier attitude - ANSWERS✔-frontier attitude
\.Who wrote about wrote about interrelationships among living organisms,
including humans, and the natural environment?
Paul Ehrlich
Theodore Roosevelt
Rachel Carson
John Muir - ANSWERS✔-Rachel Carson
\.Environmental scientists are often asked to reach a consensus before they fully
understand the systems that they study
True
False - ANSWERS✔-TRUE
\.Which of the following is not one of the five disciplines of environmental health?
,biology
epidemiology
engineering
Toxicology - ANSWERS✔-Biology
\.five disciplines of environmental health
Have overlap and can build on one another. - ANSWERS✔-Environmental
Epidemiology
Toxicology
Exposure Science
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Law
\.As a branch of public health, environmental health is the study of how the
environment affects _________________ - ANSWERS✔-human health
\.Hazards (scope of EH) - ANSWERS✔-Genetic traits <---> [chemical hazards,
biohazards, physical hazards]
<---> social or behavioural hazards
\.What are hazards? - ANSWERS✔-conditions or natural phenomena able to
destroy life
, biological= disease
\.____________ _________ can take information from the other disciplines and
combine it to conduct a risk assessment for specific risks to determine if they
need to enact a law on how it effects the environment and human health. -
ANSWERS✔-Environmental Law
\._________ ___________ is used to improve overall environmental quality.
Applies scientific and engineering principles for protection of human populations
from the effects of adverse environmental factors
Protection of environments from potentially deleterious effects of natural and
human activities - ANSWERS✔-Environmental Engineering
\._________ ___________ studies the relationship between environmental
exposures (including exposure to chemicals, radiation, microbiological agents,
etc.) and human health. - ANSWERS✔-Environmental Epidemiology (observational
is the most common)
\.Studies how environmental exposures lead to specific health outcomes,
generally in animals, to understand possible health outcomes in humans. -
ANSWERS✔-Toxicology
studies the effects of manmade and natural chemicals on health and the
environment.
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
\.Environmental Science is the study of the natural processes that occur in the
environment and how humans can affect them.
It is an INTERWEB OF: - ANSWERS✔-Humans
Natural Resources
Pollution
\.Environmental scientists often make recommendations based on probabilities
rather than precise answers.
True or False? - ANSWERS✔-TRUE
\.Mold that triggers Asthma is an example of what environmental health hazard?
Biological
Chemical
Physical
Genetic Traits - ANSWERS✔-Biological
,\.What term refers to the desire to conquer and exploit nature as quickly as
possible?
Deforestation
conservation
resources
frontier attitude - ANSWERS✔-frontier attitude
\.Who wrote about wrote about interrelationships among living organisms,
including humans, and the natural environment?
Paul Ehrlich
Theodore Roosevelt
Rachel Carson
John Muir - ANSWERS✔-Rachel Carson
\.Environmental scientists are often asked to reach a consensus before they fully
understand the systems that they study
True
False - ANSWERS✔-TRUE
\.Which of the following is not one of the five disciplines of environmental health?
,biology
epidemiology
engineering
Toxicology - ANSWERS✔-Biology
\.five disciplines of environmental health
Have overlap and can build on one another. - ANSWERS✔-Environmental
Epidemiology
Toxicology
Exposure Science
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Law
\.As a branch of public health, environmental health is the study of how the
environment affects _________________ - ANSWERS✔-human health
\.Hazards (scope of EH) - ANSWERS✔-Genetic traits <---> [chemical hazards,
biohazards, physical hazards]
<---> social or behavioural hazards
\.What are hazards? - ANSWERS✔-conditions or natural phenomena able to
destroy life
, biological= disease
\.____________ _________ can take information from the other disciplines and
combine it to conduct a risk assessment for specific risks to determine if they
need to enact a law on how it effects the environment and human health. -
ANSWERS✔-Environmental Law
\._________ ___________ is used to improve overall environmental quality.
Applies scientific and engineering principles for protection of human populations
from the effects of adverse environmental factors
Protection of environments from potentially deleterious effects of natural and
human activities - ANSWERS✔-Environmental Engineering
\._________ ___________ studies the relationship between environmental
exposures (including exposure to chemicals, radiation, microbiological agents,
etc.) and human health. - ANSWERS✔-Environmental Epidemiology (observational
is the most common)
\.Studies how environmental exposures lead to specific health outcomes,
generally in animals, to understand possible health outcomes in humans. -
ANSWERS✔-Toxicology
studies the effects of manmade and natural chemicals on health and the
environment.
