Grades 6-8 Human Health
Grades 6-8 Human Health
Grades 6-8 Human Health
Grades 6-8 Human Health
1. What is a condition caused by
a mutation in the genes someone
inherited from their parents?
3. What is an infectious disease
that spreads to a large number of
people in a short period of time in
one location?
5. What is a condition caused by
exposure to dangerous
conditions or toxic substances in
a work situation?
7. Who studies vectors of
infectious diseases?
A. an epidemic
B. a pandemic
C. an emerging infectious
disease
A. an occupational disease
B. an infectious disease
C. a lifestyle disease
A. a genetic disease
B. an infectious disease
C. an environmental disease
Grades 9-12 Human Health
Grades 9-12 Human Health
1. If the odds ratio is 1.5 for
developing autism when exposed
to air pollution in the womb, how
many more children will have
autism in the polluted town?
A. about half again as many
B. about half as many
C. about twice as many
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3. Which of these are heavy
metals?
A. lead, mercury, cadmium
B. sodium, flourine, carbon
C. Atrazine, Chlordane, DDT
CORRECT: A, A
5. What is the primary health
effect of methyl mercury in
fetuses, infants and children?
A. impaired neurological
development
B. impaired limb development
C. impaired lung and respiratory
function
CORRECT: A, A
A. zoologists
B. virologists or microbiologists
C. public health officers
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7. Who cleans up leaks and spills
from chemical tanks, train
wrecks, and other industrial
accidents?
A. hazardous materials
specialists
B. environmental toxicologists
C. environmental field
technicians
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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Grades 6-8 Human Health
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Grades 6-8 Human Health
2. Which federal agency
monitors air, public drinking
water systems, and soil for heavy
metals and toxic compounds?
4. What is a condition caused by
a person eating too much
unhealthy food, not getting
enough exercise, and/or using
addictive drugs?
6. Who plans for and protects the
public against outbreaks of
diseases?
8. What is an animal that carries
a disease that can infect
humans?
A. public health officers
B. zoologists
C. health educators
A. a disease vector
B. an infectious disease
C. a microbe
A. the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
B. the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
C. the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC)
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A. a lifestyle disease
B. an infectious disease
C. an environmental disease
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Grades 9-12 Human Health
Grades 9-12 Human Health
2. Which of these skews the sex
ratio of wild animals towards
females?
4. Which of these has a mode of
action that involves binding to
proteins, enzymes and nucleic
acids, and then interfering with
their function?
A. endocrine disruptors
B. ozone
C. nitrogen fertilizer
A. heavy metals
B. endocrine disruptors
C. viruses
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
6. Who studies the detection and
treatment of poisonous
substances in the environment?
A. environmental toxicologists
B. epidemiologists
C. environmental field
technicians
CORRECT: A, A
8. Which of these does the EPA
use to estimate daily exposure to
or uptake of a toxin not likely to
cause harmful effects over a
lifetime?
A. a reference dose (RfD)
B. an LD50
C. a dose response relationship
CORRECT: A, A
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9. Which of these contributes to
increasing antibiotic resistance in
bacterial in agricultural settings?
11. What does repeated
exposure to pesticides do to
populations of fungi, weed and
insects
13. What is a condition caused
by a mutation in a cell's genes
that causes the cell to reproduce
uncontrollably and to interfere
with how the body works?
15. What is a zoonotic disease?
A. Confined Animal Feeding
Operations (CAFOs)
B. global warming
C. tropical deforestation
A. select for resistance
B. change their color
C. reduce their size
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A. a disease only animals get
B. an animal disease that can
infect humans
C. a disease common in zoos
A. an environmental disease
B. cancer
C. a genetic disease
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Grades 9-12 Human Health
15. What factor caused certain
metals to become a health and
environmental concern?
9. What is the idea that if an
action has a suspected risk and
there is no scientific consensus it
is safe, it is up to those who want
to take the action to prove it is
safe before doing anything?
11. What is it when persistent
toxins are carried up the food
chain so that animals at the top
of the chain have a higher
percentage than plants and
animals at the bottom?
13. Which of these has a
chemical structure similar
enough to hormones that a body
mistakes them for natural
hormones?
A. the precautionary principle
B. substantial equivalence
C. the dilution paradigm
A. biomagnification
B. bioaccumulation
C. a synergistic effect
A. sulfur dioxides
B. endocrine disruptors
C. heavy metals
A. a compulsion of some people
to eat dirt with metals in it
B. mining and industry have
spread metals around the
environment
C. the increased exposure of
miners and industrial workers to
metals
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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Grades 6-8 Human Health
Grades 6-8 Human Health
Grades 6-8 Human Health
10. What is it when bacteria are
no longer susceptible to
antibiotics?
12. Which of these is an
emerging infectious disease?
14. What is a condition caused
by a foreign organism getting into
someone, where it interferes with
how the body works and
reproduces and spreads to
someone else?
16. Which of these is caused by
mercury poisoning?
A. a genetic disease
B. an infectious disease
C. an environmental disease
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A. to cure malaria
B. to kill insects
C. to promote plant growth
A. antibotic resistance
B. pesticide resistance
C. vaccination resistance
A. chicken pox
B. Ebola
C. obesity
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Grades 9-12 Human Health
10. What is the idea that some
systems are so complex that
poorly thought out solutions can
actually make the problem
worse?
A. the boomerang paradigm
B. the dilution paradigm
C. the precautionary principle
CORRECT: A, A
12. Which of these is a factor
that affects risk from toxic
chemicals?
A. if the chemical causes cancer
B. exposure in the environment
C. if the chemical is naturally
occurring
CORRECT: B, B
14. What is a heavy metal?
A. just elements denser than
uranium
B. any metal of environmental
concern
C. any element on the periodic
table
CORRECT: B, B
A. Ebola
B. mental retardation
C. chicken pox
16. What is DDT used for?
CORRECT: B, B
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Grades 6-8 Human Health
Grades 6-8 Human Health
Grades 6-8 Human Health
17. Which federal agency
surveys and tracks diseases,
including those caused by
pollutants, and coordinates the
public response to them?
19. Which federal agency is
responsible for ensuring meat
and poultry come from healthy
animals and don’t carry disease?
21. What do you call an
infectious disease that has
recently become more common
and which could increase more
in the future?
23. What does repeated
exposure to antibiotics do in
populations of bacteria?
A. the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
B. the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC)
C. the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
A. the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
B. the U.S. Department of
Agricuture (USDA)
C. the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
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A. an epidemic
B. a pandemic
C. an emerging disease
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A. reduces their size
B. selects for resistance
C. changes their color
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23. What is an endocrine
disruptor?
17. Who studies patterns of
illness to find the causes?
19. What is the change in effect
on an organism caused by
changes in the dose of a toxin?
21. What measure quantifies
how much more likely someone
exposed to a chemical will have
a disease than someone that has
not been exposed?
A. doctors
B. epidemiologists
C. environmental toxicologists
A. a threshold dose
B. a dose response relationship
C. an LD50
A. a dose response relationship
B. an odds ratio
C. chance
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: C, B
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18. Who helps people
understand their disease and
choices they can make to get
better?
20. Which of these contributes to
expanding the ranges of tropical
diseases and their vectors to
higher latitudes and altitudes?
22. DDT is still occasionally used
to control the spread of malaria
but is no longer as effective as it
once was. Why?
24. What is an infectious disease
that spreads to a large number of
people across many countries
and continents?
A. virologists or microbiologists
B. health educators
C. public health officers
A. Confined Animal Feeding
Operations (CAFOs)
B. global warming
C. tropical deforestation
A. it breaks down too quickly
B. malarial mosquitoes have
developed resistance to DDT
C. malarial parasites have
developed resistance to DDT
A. an epidemic
B. an emerging infectious
disease
C. a pandemic
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A. a chemical that causes
mutations
B. a chemical that interferes with
neurological development in
fetuses
C. a chemical that mimics or
interferes with hormones
CORRECT: B,C
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Grades 9-12 Human Health
18. Why was the EPA given the
job of regulating pesticides
instead of the USDA?
A. The USDA didn't have a large
enough budget
B. It would have been a conflict
of interest for the USDA
C. The USDA didn't have the
expertise
CORRECT: B, B
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20. What is the idea that if an
action is essentially the same as
an existing action considered
safe, it can also be considered
safe?
22. In a public health context,
what is an effect caused by the
interaction of two or more toxic
substances?
A. the dilution paradigm
B. substantial equivalence
C. the precautionary principle
A. biomagnification
B. a synergistic effect
C. bioaccumulation
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
24. What kind of health effects
do Atrazine, Chlordane and DDT
have?
A. heavy metal toxicity
B. lung function impairment
C. endocrine disruption
CORRECT: C,C
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25. Which federal agency
ensures that food and drinks,
including bottled water, are safe
for human consumption?
27. What is a condition caused
by a toxic substance getting into
someone and then interfering
with the growth, development or
function of the body?
29. Which of these is a lifestyle
disease?
31. Which of these contributes to
emerging infectious diseases by
providing new aquatic habitats
for diseases and their vectors?
A. the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC)
B. the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
C. the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
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25. Which of these causes
nausea, vomiting, neurological
problems and cancers?
A. endocrine disruptors
B. protein starvation
C. heavy metals
A. an infectious disease
B. a genetic disease
C. an environmental disease
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27. DDT was banned for
agricultural uses in the U.S. in
1972 . What was one reason?
A. there wasn't enough for both
medical and agricultural uses
B. it broke down too quickly
C. it poisoned wildlife
A. Ebola
B. mental retardation
C. obesity
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29. Which agency handles global
health issues?
A. the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC)
B. the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
C. the World Health Organization
(WHO)
A. tropical deforestation
B. Confined Animal Feeding
Operations (CAFOs)
C. dams, levees and irrigation
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31. What is the idea that if you
dilute something enough, it will
no longer be a hazard?
A. the boomerang paradigm
B. the precautionary principle
C. the dilution paradigm
CORRECT: C,C
CORRECT: C,C
CORRECT: C,C
CORRECT: C,C
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26. Which of these is an
occupational disease?
28. Who studies agents of
infectious diseases?
A. obesity
B. Ebola
C. asbestosis
A. health educators
B. zoologists
C. virologists or microbiologists
30. Which of these increases the
contact between humans and
diseases only known from
formerly isolated jungles?
32. What is it when fungi, weeds
or insects are no longer affected
by a pesticide that used to kill
them?
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A. antibiotic resistance
B. vaccination resistance
C. pesticide resistance
26. About how many American
women of child-bearing age are
estimated to have levels of
mercury in their blood that could
harm a developing fetus?
28. Who samples air, water and
soil to measure levels of
pollutants?
A. dams, levees and irrigation
systems
B. Confined Animal Feeding
Operations (CAFOs)
C. tropical deforestation
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A. between 100,000 and a million
B. between 10,000 and 100,000
C. over 1 million
CORRECT: C,C
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A. environmental toxicologists
B. epidemiologists
C. environmetal field technicians
30. What is the lowest does that
causes a change in the
organism?
32. What is it when persistent
toxins in the environment are
stored in the tissues of plants
and animals instead of being
excreted?
CORRECT: C,C
A. an LD50
B. a reference dose (RfD)
C. a threshold dose
A. biomagnification
B. a synergistic effect
C. bioaccumulation
CORRECT: C,C
CORRECT: C,C
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