Vocabulary
Humans and Engineering
Water & Disease
Water & Engineering
Potpourri
100
A significant amount of water either naturally or man-made
What is Body of water?
100
The design, analysis, and vreation of things that are practical and useful in our lives
What is engineering?
100
serves as a carrier or transmitter of diseases
What is water?
100
two great engineering achievements relating to Rome and London
What are the Roman aqueducts and the London sewer system?
100
changing the natural world to satisfy needs
What technology refers to?
200
Measure of the activity of hydrogen atoms
What is pH?
200
Creating something that has not existed before
What is design?
200
2 main concepts water engineering is about
What are make water safe for drinking and transport water from its source to where we live?
200
US agency has the mission of protecting human health and the environment
What is the EPA?
200
scientific aspects ethical aspects economic aspects legal aspects
What engineers should focus on when looking at large-scale problems?
300
a widespread outbreak of a contagious disease
What is epidemic?
300
Water, food, and shelter
What are the 3 basic necessities that animals and humans need to stay alive?
300
Diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting and dehydration
What are the symptoms of cholera?
300
Quality of water is dependent on these two aspects
What is condition of water source & the treatment of water?
300
has always been a human activity
What is engineering?
400
not reclaimed water
What is potable?
400
clothes
What is the one item that humans need, but animals do not?
400
separate sewage water from natural water sources treatment of sewage water treatment of water resources purification of water
What are the 4 key elements to prevent cholera and other waterborne diseases?
400
provides information on the quality of local drinking water, its source and contaminants found in the water
What is the "consumer confidence report"?
400
sustainable development is linked to
What are basic needs, freedom, nutrition, and world peace?
500
(Gm1m2)/r2
What is gravity?
500
What are the social, economic, and environmental impacts of our engineering achievement?
What question must be asked as we try to solve our problems using engineering?
500
Prevent people from using the broad street pump
What action is credited with greatly reducing the number ot deaths from the cholera epidemic ?
500
Land from which precipitation flows into rivers, lakes or reservoirs
What is a watershed?
500
Essay Question
What is "describe in detail the 1854 cholera case in London and discuss why Dr. Snow's research is used as a model of scientific reasoning"?
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