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The amount of water consumed for nourishment (3 gal/person/day) is roughly a tenth of the water used to transport bodily waste - correct answer TRUE In 1546 King Henry VIII shut down public bathhouses in England for good, blaming them for sickness. Instead of bathing to keep clean, what approach was adopted in Tudor England? - correct answer to wear clean linen next to the skin as it was thought that it made the body clean The collection of rainwater in Nevada is currently permitted, as it is considered a sustainable design strategy. - correct answer False In the U.S. most municipalities require that new installed toilets use - correct answer no more than 1.6 gallons per flush. Raw wastewater must be treated before it is safely returned to nature. What is the level of treatment required to return treated wastewater to nature? - correct answer Secondary treatment (also known as secondary effluent) Constructed wetlands are - correct answer artificial marshes designed to treat anthropogenic discharge such as wastewater, stormwater, runoff or sewage by emulating the effect that natural wetlands have as biofilters, removing sediments and pollutants. Sound, in the context of architectural acoustics, is best described as: - correct answer pressure variations in an elastic medium The use of the term "level" in a sound measurement always denotes - correct answer that the measurement will be expressed in decibels. Sound Transmission Class (STC) is - correct answer A single number rating to quantify the sound insulation performance of a partition No matter how good a partition's Transmission Loss (TL) is, if it has a 0.1% hole it will never exceed 29 dB. - correct answer True