Healthy Homes, Risk Assessment, and Risk Communication
A home's thermal environment that will permit adequate heat loss from a body.
What is a home that is adequately cooled?
The branch of the Federal government that passes new laws.
What is the Legislative branch?
The direction that mosquito vectors carrying diseases currently transmitting diseases in Florida are moving.
What is North?
The green power source that collects methane from animal or human wastes.
What is biogas?
This is used to measure the pitch of sound
What is Hertz?
The housing need that is met by providing safe and sanitary water supply.
What is Protection Against Disease?
The part of the Risk Assessment determines whether a particular chemical is or is not causally linked to a particular health effect.
What is Hazard identification?
This GHG has the least residence time in the atmosphere.
What is CH4?
The volatile toxic substances that is needed for ozone formation.
What are VOCs?
This type of sound has a short wavelength.
What is high pitch?
According to Peter Sandman, this phrase in more correct: Outrage causes _______ perception.
Fill in the blank
What is hazard?
The part of the Risk Assessment that determines the extent of human exposure
What is Exposure assessment?
This effect describes the radiation reflected by light colored surfaces like ice caps and glaciers
What is the albedo effect?
The type of mercury that killed or seriously disabled hundreds of Japanese from eating fish from Minamata bay.
What is methyl mercury?
This type of radiation is stopped by a piece of paper?
What is Alpha particles?
The lowest dose level in the (animal) study at which critical effects were observed.
What is LOAEL?
The principle used when a decision is made to avoid or mitigate serious risks even though the probability of a health out is uncertain or unknown.
What is The Precautionary Principle?
The Intergovernmental Panel on CC's (IPCC) overarching aim for a global temperature limit over the preindustrial average in Celsius.
What is 1.5 degrees C?
The country with the largest contributor to global cumulative CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in 2023 by tons?
What is the US?
This type of sound has a very low amplitude.
What is quiet?
In a healthy community, the three factors that determine our health.
What is Family Health History, Behavior/Lifestyles, and the environment?
The formula for the Hazard Quotient in a non-cancer risk assessment.
What is the CDI/RfD?
The anthropogenic gas with the greatest global warming potential.
What are Halocarbons?
The climate change strategy of relocating people living at or near sea level.
What is Adaptation?
Three actions to take to minimize your exposure to radiation.
What is minimize time, maximize distance, and maximize protective shielding?