Impacts Of Pollutants On Human Health Quiz 3 (25 MCQs)

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

2. What are symptoms of Minimata Disease?

3. How could recycling rates be increased?

4. The process through which pollutants get increasingly more concentrated at each step up the food chain is

5. People in developing nations are more likely than people in developed nations to die from

6. Which of the following is an infectious disease that is spread through drinking water polluted by human feces?

7. Which of the following is a neurotoxin?

8. A large percentage of MSW in the United States is

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

10. Developing countries might show higher rates of all of the following except

11. Which of the following is NOT a carcinogen?

12. What occurs when stress builds up in tectonic plates is suddenly released?

13. What is an indicator species?

14. _____ is the vector that may spread disease such as malaria or Dengue infection.

15. What is a benthic macroinvertebrate?

16. Which of the following does not determine the toxic effect of a chemical?

17. Which of the following is an emerging virus?

18. Which of the fowling is NOT a method of controlling or preventing mercury pollution?

19. The greatest reduction of MSW could be achieved by reducing

20. The major environmental downside to large-scale waste incineration is

21. Which current approach could help greatly reduce the volume and mass of current MSW in the United States?

22. Asbestos has been shown to have a higher correlation with cancer when someone smokes cigarettes as well. This is because

23. How is mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows is affecting the people.

24. What is the correct order of most impact (greatest to least) for the 3 Rs?

25. Pollutants, such as oil and pesticides, which are damaging to soil and water supplies are called _____