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ECU EHST 2110 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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ECU EHST 2110 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Name: Score:94 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 94
Burned fossil fuels release nitrogen and sulfur compounds and combine with water vapor in
the air forming nitric and sulfuric acids.
review of acidity
ice crystal formation
acid rain formation
acid rain neutralization
Definition 2 of 94
phone chatter, transportation
Sources of Noise Pollution (general public)
Causality in Epidemiologic Studies
Ionizing radiation (x rays and gamma rays)
Three types of ionizing radiation
Definition 3 of 94
contaminated clothing, clean-up solutions, wiping rags, hand tool, etc.
Intermediate level waste
High level waste
Industrial solid waste
Low level waste
,Definition 4 of 94
Information about patients who share a disease in common in gathered over time.
Cohort Studies
Cross-sectional Study
Case Series
Point Prevalence
Definition 5 of 94
The percentage of people in a given population who have a given disorder at any particular
point in time.
Point Prevalence
Relative Risk
Incidence Rate
Incidence
Definition 6 of 94
a constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity
Great Conveyor Belt
Trade Winds
Polar Easterlies
Relative Risk
Definition 7 of 94
Sulfer dioxide, Carbon monoxide, lead, Nitrogen oxides,
3 mile island
6 criteria pollutants
6 greenhouse gases
3 important aspects to petroleum systems
,Definition 8 of 94
cancers have latency periods that span many years. Asbestos.
Difficulty in exposure assessment
Concern With population
Temporality
Long Latency periods
Definition 9 of 94
Form through chemical reactions when NO2 and VOCs react with oxygen and sunlight and
produces a photochemical smog
EX. People who have COPD worry about this area
Ozone
Methane
Carbon Monoxide
Lead
Definition 10 of 94
ratio of the incidence rate of disease/outcome in an exposed group to the incidence rate of
disease/outcome. in the non-exposed group.
Relative Risk
Odds Ratio
Incidence Rate
Prevalence
, Definition 11 of 94
alpha, beta, gamma
Three types of ionizing radiation
Regions of the atmosphere
Non-ionizing radiation
Composition of the Atmosphere
Definition 12 of 94
first American physician to use x-rays to treat cancer in 1896
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Emil Grubbe
C. Edmund Kells
Definition 13 of 94
Particles or rays that have enough energy to dislodge electrons from the atoms (destroy
chemical bons, result in birth defects, mutations)
Visible light radiation (light bulbs)
Ionizing radiation (X rays and gamma rays)
Non-ionizing radiation (radio waves and microwaves)
Ultraviolet radiation (uv rays)
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