MIDTERM PBH 340 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What was one of the main ways that we minimized the leading cause of death of infectious disease in the
early 1900s?
Answer:
Design/engineering
Question:
2. The number of housing per square mile is?
Answer:
Housing density
Question:
3. An area that has housing, office, education, and entertainment within a two block radius has?
Answer:
High land use mix
Question:
4. One of the hallmark reasons that urban planning and public health professions split was because public
health continued to embrace ____, while planning began to focus on on just design
Answer:
Social justice
Question:
5. Which was discussed as playing a role in the start of the suburbs?
Answer:
- Special interest groups such as the oil and auto industry
- Housing and tax policy
- inexpensive housing construction
- the transportation revolution
Question:
6. Environment - external (non-genetic) factors
Answer:
Physical, nutritional, social, behavioral, and others - that act on humans.
Question:
7. Built environment
Answer:
made up of the many aspects of surroundings which are created by or modified by humans, such as
buildings, roadways, neighborhoods, and cities.
, Question:
8. Design professions
Answer:
those that focus on how things are made
Question:
9. What are types of design professions
Answer:
urban planning, architecture, civil engineering, environmental engineering, landscape architecture.
Question:
10. Urban planning
Answer:
(city or town planning) is dedicated to envisioning, planning, designing, and monitoring the layout and
function of the cities.
Question:
11. Architecture
Answer:
operated at the scale of buildings aka how buildings are designed
Question:
12. civil engineering
Answer:
design, construction, and maintenance of certain BE features (bridges, roads, dams)
Question:
13. Environmental engineering
Answer:
environmental performance (improving recycling, waste disposal, conservation of water)
Question:
14. Landscape architecture
Answer:
arrangement of natural and built elements on the land. Such as the design of parks and watershed
management.
Question:
15. What was the leading cause of death/disease before the early 1900s?
Answer:
infectious diseases, which improved by designing their way out of it.
Question:
16. What is the modern day goal of public health?
Answer:
Disease prevention and health promotion.
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What was one of the main ways that we minimized the leading cause of death of infectious disease in the
early 1900s?
Answer:
Design/engineering
Question:
2. The number of housing per square mile is?
Answer:
Housing density
Question:
3. An area that has housing, office, education, and entertainment within a two block radius has?
Answer:
High land use mix
Question:
4. One of the hallmark reasons that urban planning and public health professions split was because public
health continued to embrace ____, while planning began to focus on on just design
Answer:
Social justice
Question:
5. Which was discussed as playing a role in the start of the suburbs?
Answer:
- Special interest groups such as the oil and auto industry
- Housing and tax policy
- inexpensive housing construction
- the transportation revolution
Question:
6. Environment - external (non-genetic) factors
Answer:
Physical, nutritional, social, behavioral, and others - that act on humans.
Question:
7. Built environment
Answer:
made up of the many aspects of surroundings which are created by or modified by humans, such as
buildings, roadways, neighborhoods, and cities.
, Question:
8. Design professions
Answer:
those that focus on how things are made
Question:
9. What are types of design professions
Answer:
urban planning, architecture, civil engineering, environmental engineering, landscape architecture.
Question:
10. Urban planning
Answer:
(city or town planning) is dedicated to envisioning, planning, designing, and monitoring the layout and
function of the cities.
Question:
11. Architecture
Answer:
operated at the scale of buildings aka how buildings are designed
Question:
12. civil engineering
Answer:
design, construction, and maintenance of certain BE features (bridges, roads, dams)
Question:
13. Environmental engineering
Answer:
environmental performance (improving recycling, waste disposal, conservation of water)
Question:
14. Landscape architecture
Answer:
arrangement of natural and built elements on the land. Such as the design of parks and watershed
management.
Question:
15. What was the leading cause of death/disease before the early 1900s?
Answer:
infectious diseases, which improved by designing their way out of it.
Question:
16. What is the modern day goal of public health?
Answer:
Disease prevention and health promotion.
