AP Environmental Science
Name___________________________
Chapter 8: Environmental Health & Toxicology Period 2 4 8
Date___________
Environmental Health Survey:
1. Review the 1990 Diseases to see the Leading Causes of Global Disease Burden from
that time period. Using this information, rank the following from the leading cause of
disease to the least cause of disease:
Rank
1990-Diseases
1
Pneumonia
2
Diarrhea
3
Perinatal Conditions
4
Depression
5
Heart Disease
6
Stroke
2011 - Diseases
Pneumonia
7
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
8
Measles
War
9
Traffic Accidents
Diarrhea
10
Birth Defects
HIV/AIDS
Why chosen as this
rank?
Improved antibiotics
and improved
precautions
Improved antibiotics
and improved
precautions
Iraqi and Afghanistan
War involvement
fatalaties
Improved antibiotics
and improved
precautions
Improved
understanding of
disease and improved
precautions
Other diseases to consider when constructing the 2011 listing: Perinatal Conditions,
Violence, birth defects, diabetes, self-inflicted
Injuries and respiratory cancer.
2. Who is the WHO? What is their role the world
3-10. Matching the vocabulary with the chapter definition:
A. Health
B. Disease
C. Morbidity
D. Mortality
E. Environmental Health
F. Pathogens
G. Ecological Diseases
H. Emergent Diseases
___3. An abnormal change in the body’s condition that impairs important physical or
psychological funtions.
___ 4. Focuses on external factors that cause disease, including elements of the natural,
social, cultural and
Technological worlds in which we live.
___. 5. Illness
___. 6. Deaths
___ 7. A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.
___ 8. Disease-causing organisms
___. 9. A new strain of a virus or bacterial cell that causes infection.
___ 10. Wildlife and domestic animals can experience sudden or widespread diseases.
AP Environmental Science
KEY:
Chapter 8: Environmental Health and Toxicology
Period 2 4 8
Date____________
1. Review the table on the left to see the Leading Causes of Global Disease Burden
from 1990. Using this information, rank the following
from the Leading cause of disease to the least cause of disease:
Rank
1990-Diseases
1
Pneumonia
2011 - Diseases
Why chosen as this
rank?
Heart Disease
2
Diarrhea
Depression
3
Perinatal Conditions
Traffic Accidents
4
Depression
5
Heart Disease
6
Stroke
7
Tuberculosis
8
Measles
Stroke
Chronic Lung Disease
Pneumonia
Tuberculosis
War
9
Traffic Accidents
Diarrhea
10
Birth Defects
HIV/AIDS
Other diseases to consider when constructing the 2011 listing: Perinatal Conditions,
Violence, birth defects, diabetes, self-inflicted
Injuries and respiratory cancer.
2. Who is the WHO? What is their role the world? World Health Organization that tracks
disease and deaths
Of humans around the world.
3-10. Matching the vocabulary with the chapter definition:
A. Health
B. Disease C. Morbidity
D. Mortality
E. Environmental Health
F. Pathogens G. Ecological Diseases H.
Emergent Diseases
___B_3. An abnormal change in the body’s condition that impairs important physical or
psychological funtions.
___E 4. Focuses on external factors that cause disease, including elements of the
natural, social, cultural and
Technological worlds in which we live.
___D. 5. Illness
___C. 6. Deaths
___A. 7. A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.
___F. 8. Disease-causing organisms
___H. 9. A new strain of a virus or bacterial cell that causes infection.
___G. 10. Wildlife and domestic animals can experience sudden or widespread
diseases.