ENVSE 450 MIDTERM ONE QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2024
environmental health CORRECT ANSWER
addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related
factors impacting behaviors
Healthy People 2020 CORRECT ANSWERAttain high-
quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
Three P's CORRECT ANSWERpollution, population, poverty
hazardous agents CORRECT ANSWERMicrobes
Toxic chemicals and metals
Pesticides
Ionizing radiation
Is the world population increasing or decreasing? CORRECT ANSWERincreasing
population dynamic variables CORRECT ANSWERfertility
mortality rate
migration
What is the current fertility trend? CORRECT ANSWER
equal to or below the replacement for fertility (less births)
demographic transition theory CORRECT ANSWERstage one- population
is young, fertility/mortality high, population stays small
, stage two- drop in mortality rate with high fertility, rapid increase in population
stage three- dropping fertility rates, large distribution of population by age, gender
epidemiologic transition CORRECT ANSWER
The process of change in the distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transiti
on
consequences of population increases CORRECT ANSWERUrbanization
Overtaxing carrying capacity
Food insecurity
Loss of biodiversity
urbanizaton CORRECT ANSWERgrowth of cities resulting from industrialization
megacities CORRECT ANSWERcities with more than 10 million people
carrying capacity CORRECT ANSWER
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
food insecurity CORRECT ANSWERa condition in which people do not have adequate access to food
loss of biodiversity CORRECT ANSWERdeclining number and variety of the species in an area
environmental epidemiology CORRECT ANSWER
The study of diseases and health conditions (occurring in the population) that are linked to enviro
nmental factors.
is epidemiology an observational science? CORRECT ANSWERyes
Two classes of Epidemiologic Studies CORRECT ANSWER1. descriptive
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2024
environmental health CORRECT ANSWER
addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related
factors impacting behaviors
Healthy People 2020 CORRECT ANSWERAttain high-
quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
Three P's CORRECT ANSWERpollution, population, poverty
hazardous agents CORRECT ANSWERMicrobes
Toxic chemicals and metals
Pesticides
Ionizing radiation
Is the world population increasing or decreasing? CORRECT ANSWERincreasing
population dynamic variables CORRECT ANSWERfertility
mortality rate
migration
What is the current fertility trend? CORRECT ANSWER
equal to or below the replacement for fertility (less births)
demographic transition theory CORRECT ANSWERstage one- population
is young, fertility/mortality high, population stays small
, stage two- drop in mortality rate with high fertility, rapid increase in population
stage three- dropping fertility rates, large distribution of population by age, gender
epidemiologic transition CORRECT ANSWER
The process of change in the distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transiti
on
consequences of population increases CORRECT ANSWERUrbanization
Overtaxing carrying capacity
Food insecurity
Loss of biodiversity
urbanizaton CORRECT ANSWERgrowth of cities resulting from industrialization
megacities CORRECT ANSWERcities with more than 10 million people
carrying capacity CORRECT ANSWER
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
food insecurity CORRECT ANSWERa condition in which people do not have adequate access to food
loss of biodiversity CORRECT ANSWERdeclining number and variety of the species in an area
environmental epidemiology CORRECT ANSWER
The study of diseases and health conditions (occurring in the population) that are linked to enviro
nmental factors.
is epidemiology an observational science? CORRECT ANSWERyes
Two classes of Epidemiologic Studies CORRECT ANSWER1. descriptive
