HLTH 505 Quiz Ripples
HLTH 505 Quiz Ripples
Covers the Learn material from Module 7: Week 7.
- What is the most common biological pollutant in indoor air, provoking severe allergic reactions among some individuals?
- The 3-way catalytic converters used to reduce emissions in most new model cars remove which pollutants?
- Why is radon gas in homes considered a problem?
- Which of the following is NOT an auto-associated pollutant?
- How many picocuries of radon per liter of air does the EPA regard as the “action level” at or above which abatement action should be initiated?
- Which of the following pollutants is most damaging to human health?
- If you notice a yellowish-brown haze in the air over your city, what criteria air pollutant is present?
- What is generally considered to be the pH value of natural, unpolluted precipitation?
- What pollutant is significantly reduced through the use of “scrubbers”?
- Which of the following is the most frequent cause of “sick building syndrome”?
- What is the most abundant pollutant found in urban air?
- What is “photochemical smog”?
- Which of the following explains why the Midwest is not suffering as severe damage from acid rain as are the northeastern states?
- Which of the following statements about hazardous air pollutants (i.e. “air toxics”) is false?
- Which of the following statements in reference to air pollution and health is false?
- If a person living in a mobile home complains of eye irritation, headache, nausea, dizziness, respiratory problems, extreme tiredness, or a rash, it is quite possible that the cause is exposure to what common indoor air pollutant?
- Which of the following could be a source of formaldehyde exposure inside homes?
- “Emissions trading” represents a novel market-based approach to controlling air pollution, originally conceived as a way of reducing what environmental problem
- In what way might acid rain pose a human health threat?
- When is “ozone season”—the period when this gas is most likely to reach health- threatening levels?
- Which regulated air pollutant has been the most difficult to control and is most often the cause of a community’s inability to meet national ambient air quality standards?
- Which criteria air pollutant is associated primarily with coal-burning?
- Which of the following presents the greatest airborne health threat to passengers or crew on commercial airliners?
- What pollution control strategy has actually worsened the acid rain problem?
- What pollutant enters homes from the soil under houses and can accumulate to concentrations which EPA estimates may be responsible for 10% of all U.S. lung cancer deaths?
- Which of the following is a hazardous air pollutant as opposed to a criteria pollutant?
- Which of the following statements about radon contamination in homes is false?
- The average pH of rainfall in the eastern U.S. is currently in the range of:
- Which of the following activities is the single most significant cause of recreational noise-induced hearing loss?
- What minimum level of noise exposure, if experienced on a regular basis, could lead to permanent impairment of hearing ability?
- Which of the following could trigger the onset of the condition known as “temporary threshold shift”?
- What is the unit for measuring intensity of sound (i.e. loudness of a noise)?
- Anatomically, what impact does noise have on the ear, resulting in hearing loss?
- Which of the following statements about noise is false?
- What symptom is experienced by sufferers of tinnitus?
- Which of the following constitutes the single largest use of water in the typical American home?
- Approximately what proportion of all the water on earth is found in the form of freshwater available for human consumption and use
- What activity constitutes the single largest use of water in the United States?
- Why is the Ogallala Aquifer the focus of much concern?
- Why is desalination of seawater not more widely practiced as a means of augmenting water supplies?
- What is the #1 contributor to groundwater contamination in the United States today?
- What is the name given to the type of geological formation in which groundwater occurs?
- Which of the following statements about groundwater is false?
- Of all available freshwater, which of the following constitutes the greatest amount?
- Which of the following statements about water conservation is false?