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HSC 3720 Exam 2 Review Questions and
Verified Answers
Q: What influences physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of health?
ANS: environmental health
Q:
What considers all aspects of health including environmental influences?
ANS: holistic health
Q:
Including synthetic chemicals, what is a focus of environmental health?
ANS: toxic agents
Q:
Who targets areas like lead poisoning, airborne pollutants, radon, and water pollution?
ANS: Healthy People Initiatives
Q:
What was formed in 1970 to consolidate federal environmental efforts?
ANS: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Q:
What legislation was passed in 1990 to tighten air pollution regulations?
ANS: Clean Air Act
Q:
What do air pollution sources include?
ANS: burning fossil fuels, surface mining, and manufacturing processes
Q:
What is the major cause of air pollution, releases CO, sulfur dioxides, and nitrogen
oxides?
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ANS: Incomplete Combustion
Q:
Where does carbon monoxide come from?
ANS: from car exhaust, cigarette smoke, and poorly vented areas
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Where do sulfur oxides come from?
ANS: from burning coal or oil, found in industrial and urban areas
Q:
Where does nitrogen oxide come from?
ANS: from burning fossil fuels, transportation, and power plants
Q:
Suspended Particles are a product of what?
ANS: industrial processes, wood burning, and asbestos particles
Q:
Where do hydrocarbons come from?
ANS: from organic matter decomposition, gasoline evaporation, and chemical
vapors
Q:
Ozone forms where and from what?
ANS: forms in the air from nitrogen oxide and hydrocarbon reactions
Q:
What reports daily air pollution concentration, focusing on health effects?
ANS: Air Quality Index (AQI)
Q:
How is upper atmosphere ozone depletion caused?
ANS: caused by fluorocarbons releasing chlorine into the stratosphere
HSC 3720 Exam 2 Review Questions and
Verified Answers
Q: What influences physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of health?
ANS: environmental health
Q:
What considers all aspects of health including environmental influences?
ANS: holistic health
Q:
Including synthetic chemicals, what is a focus of environmental health?
ANS: toxic agents
Q:
Who targets areas like lead poisoning, airborne pollutants, radon, and water pollution?
ANS: Healthy People Initiatives
Q:
What was formed in 1970 to consolidate federal environmental efforts?
ANS: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Q:
What legislation was passed in 1990 to tighten air pollution regulations?
ANS: Clean Air Act
Q:
What do air pollution sources include?
ANS: burning fossil fuels, surface mining, and manufacturing processes
Q:
What is the major cause of air pollution, releases CO, sulfur dioxides, and nitrogen
oxides?
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ANS: Incomplete Combustion
Q:
Where does carbon monoxide come from?
ANS: from car exhaust, cigarette smoke, and poorly vented areas
Q:
Where do sulfur oxides come from?
ANS: from burning coal or oil, found in industrial and urban areas
Q:
Where does nitrogen oxide come from?
ANS: from burning fossil fuels, transportation, and power plants
Q:
Suspended Particles are a product of what?
ANS: industrial processes, wood burning, and asbestos particles
Q:
Where do hydrocarbons come from?
ANS: from organic matter decomposition, gasoline evaporation, and chemical
vapors
Q:
Ozone forms where and from what?
ANS: forms in the air from nitrogen oxide and hydrocarbon reactions
Q:
What reports daily air pollution concentration, focusing on health effects?
ANS: Air Quality Index (AQI)
Q:
How is upper atmosphere ozone depletion caused?
ANS: caused by fluorocarbons releasing chlorine into the stratosphere
