Environmental Health Unit:
Final Assessment / Unit Test
Objectives:
TSWBAT take knowledge from the environmental
health unit of how to protect water, air, land and soil
and apply it to completing an open notes unit test.
Let’s Review!
• Take out your notes from
this unit.
• I will be going over key
points / objectives from
this unit.
• You will see these points
not only on the unit test
today but the mid term in
January and the final
exam in June.
• If you are missing these
items in your notes – ADD
THEM!!!
Lesson One – The Intro…
• What is environmental health?
– The study of humans & their interactions with the environment
• What does a professional in environmental health work to protect?
– Air, water, soil, food
• What are global environmental health issues?
– Population growth
• Over 7 billion people on earth – we are running out of room!
– Poverty and hunger
• Land suitable for growing crops is now inhabited by humans
– Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Increase air temperatures are caused by greenhouse gas emissions
– Ozone Destruction
• Caused by CFC’s (from aerosol cans, air conditioners, etc.) be released in the atmosphere
• Ozone filters UV rays from the sun – increase the chance of skin cancer
– Deforestation / destruction of the rain forest
• Cutting down rain forests for timber
• We need oxygen to survive!
Lesson Two – Laws & Agencies
• Agencies:
– EPA
– OSHA
– NIOSH
• Laws:
– 8 laws…do you have the
correct definitions?!
Lesson 3 –
Protecting Land & Water
• Wastes
– Industrial, hazardous or radioactive
– Can be flammable, corrosive or reactive
• Deforestation (from lesson one)
• Biodegradable
– Breaks down / absorbed into the environment
• Recycling
– “Reduce / reuse / recycle”
• Conservation
– How can we reduce pollution
– how that action can positively affect the environment
Lesson 4 & 5 – Air Quality and Car
Activity
•
• Outdoor Air Pollution
Terms:
– Ozone (from lesson one)
– Smog
• Brownish haze that
sometimes forms in
urban areas
– Greenhouse Gasses
• Emitted into the
atmosphere from
cars, busses, trucks,
heating systems and
industries
– Carbon monoxide
Indoor Air Pollution terms:
– Radon
• Naturally formed in rock and soil below
homes and businesses
• SECOND LEADING cause lung cancer from
your home other than smoking
– Asbestos
• Insulation used in old homes and
businesses
• LEADING cause lung cancer from your
home other than smoking
– CO (carbon monoxide)
• Colorless and odorless gas
• Prevents oxygen from reaching body tissue
– Lead
• Found in paint in old homes
• Can cause damage to the kidneys, liver,
brain, nerves; heart disease
Lesson 6: Conservation
• Global Warming (from
lesson one)
• Recycling
• How can we reduce
pollution?
• How that action can
positively affect the
environment?
• “Reduce / Reuse /
recycle”
• “Think Globally – Act
Locally”
Does anyone have any questions or
want me to review any material
again?
Are you ready to take the test?!
Today’s Goals
• Unit Test:
– Test is done individually.
• You may not talk or share notes with others or use your cellphone until all
tests are collected!!
– All questions come directly from your notes for power points, the
textbook, today’s power point and activities done this unit.
• After the Unit Test:
– Turn your test into the ‘to be graded bin’ by the windows (make
sure your name is on the test!)
– Did you turn in all unit classwork…including the poster activity?!
– Take the packet titled ‘Adolescent Medical History Form’ next to
the bin:
• It is important that you do not put your name on the worksheet.
• Try your best to answer the questions knowing that I will never collect it or
look at it.
• This form will be used next class meeting for the introduction of Consumer
Health Unit