CPH 320: Midterm Review Round 2

Air Quality

100

List 3 acute health effects due to air pollution

Irritation of eyes, nose, and throat

Aching lungs

Bronchitis

Pneumonia

Wheezing

Coughing

Nausea

Headache

200

What is the phenomena where acidic compounds are formed in air? 

Acid Rain

300

Name two environmental impacts of air pollution.

Damage to property & buildings

Reduction of visibility in national parks

Harms forests

Harms lakes and other bodies or water

Injures wildlife

400

What is the atmospheric condition during which a warm layer of air stalls above a cool layer of air, trapping pollutants?

Inversion layers

500

What particles is associated with 60,000 deaths annually? 

PM2.5

Water Quality

100

What is the largest use of water globally?

Agriculture

200

What type of water is contained in the interconnected pores in an aquifer?

Groundwater

300

What is the largest impairment in Kentucky water resources?

Pathogens

400

What percent of the earths water is freshwater sources?

2.5%

500

Nitrate persists in ground water for decades. List 2 sources of nitrate applied to the land?

Fertilizer and animal manure

Dry deposition from industry and automobiles 

Lawn fertilizers

Septic systems

Noise Exposure

100

What common effect causes hearing a sound in the ears in the absence of sound?

Tinnitus

200

What is an example of pink noise?

Wind

300

Primary exposure to noise can have what acute effects? (Name one)

Decreased sleep quality

Increased annoyance, stress, & distraction

Temporary change in hearing

400

This type of hearing loss is almost alwasy irreversible. The sensory component of the loss involves degeneration of the auditory nerve.

Sensorineural hearing loss

500

This type of hearing loss interferes with the transmission of sound to the cochlea.

Conductive hearing loss

Food Safety

100

What is the leading cause of foodborne outbreaks? 

Norovirus

200

Which surveillance system uses DNA fingerprints of bacteria from patients to identify outbreaks?

PulseNet

300

Which step in the food production chain means changing animals or plants into the forms we know and buy as food?

Processing

400

List the 4 steps to food safety.

Clean

Seperate

Cook

Chill

500

What agent is causes a neurological disease where humans are thought to be infected by consumption of the agent?

Variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease 

Zoonotic Disease

100

What term is for an inset or living carrier that transports an infectious agent from an infected individual (or its wastes) to a susceptible individual?

Vector

200

What is a group of viral disease that can be acquired through the bite of blood-feeding arthropod?

Arboviral disease 

300

What is the deadliest animal?

Mosquito

400

List 2 tick-borne diseases that are in Kentucky?

Lyme disease

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

500

Name 2 examples of a primary public health intervention.

Vaccines

Distributions of condoms in high STI areas

Food safety legislation