Environmental Health
An organism that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
Large-scale food shortages leading to starvation and death.
What is famine?
Daily or hourly changes in temperature or precipitation.
What is weather?
What is poor/bad/harmful?
The hydrologic cycle hinges on these two processes.
What are evaporation and precipitation?
One of the top three causes of death globally, alongside diabetes and cancer.
What is heart/cardiovascular disease?
Organisms with entirely new genes, and even new organisms, often called “transgenic” organisms, are used extensively in commercial agriculture.
What are GMOs/genetically modified organisms?
Long-term weather patterns.
What is climate?
Legislation that established air quality standards in the US.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This layer of underground rock, sediment, and or soil stores and transmits groundwater.
A term for an infectious disease transmitted between animals and humans.
What is zoonosis/zoonotic disease?
Global food waste accounts for this percent of all food production.
What is 30%?
The amount of light a surface reflects.
What is albedo?
Most conventional/criteria air pollutants come from this process.
What is burning fossil fuels?
Water compartment that contains 87.2% of the earth’s fresh water.
What is ice and snow?
Agents that damage or alter genetic material (DNA) in cells.
What are mutagens?
Term meaning to have access to sufficient food for daily life.
What is food security?
Layer of the atmosphere containing the most ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
Highly reactive greenhouse gas that can trap substantially more heat than CO2.
What is ozone?
A term used to describe water exported in other forms, such as crops and meat.
What are virtual water exports?
Term used to describe both a single exposure to and a sudden, severe, but often reversible response to an environmental toxin.
What is acute?
This phenomenon describes the positive feedback between increased pesticide use and increased resistance of pests.
What is the pesticide treadmill?
An international agreement to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions adopted in 1997.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
The most significant source of indoor air pollution in developing countries.
What is smoke?
The goal of this Act was to return all U. S. surface waters to “fishable and swimmable” conditions.
What is the Clean Water Act?