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ECU EHST 2110 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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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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