Environmental Health

Environmental Health Quiz

Test your knowledge on the vital topic of environmental health with our engaging quiz! Understand how pollution affects our daily lives, the importance of waste management, and how different factors influence our health. With 11 carefully crafted questions, this quiz will challenge your understanding and raise awareness about environmental issues.

Topics covered include:

Types of environmental pollution
Human health impacts
Waste management strategies
Environmental protection agencies

11 Questions3 MinutesCreated by CaringNature42

Environmental pollution is the release of __________ waste that causes detrimental effects on the environment. Environmental pollution is often divided into pollution of ____________ supplies, the ___________, and the ___________.

Chemical, Water, Atmosphere, Soil

Radiation, Food, Ocean, Schools

Agents, Water, Atmosphere, Soil

Non Biodegradable, Cleaning, Home, Environment

How does the environment harm the human species?

Pollution in the air gets into the lungs of humans and causes several health issues.

Over hunting or harvesting of animals and damages nature's food chain can harm humans.

Deforestation or the cutting down of trees takes away from human oxygen supply.

All of the above

What involves studying of factors and influences of the frequency and distribution of disease, injury, and other health-related events and their causes?

Edaphology

Ethology

Epidemiology

None of the above

Minimize the amount of waste produced, make best use of remaining waste and minimize pollution from waste are the objectives of what?

Wastewater Management Planning

Waste Management Planning

Waist Management Planning

None of the above

The waste management hierarchy is made up of 5 components. Which of the following is NOT part of the waste management hierarchy Select one of the following:

Who of the following people has more possibilities of being struck by an environmental disease, if we take into account exposure to damaging agents?

A teacher, who walks 2 miles in the sun each day to get to work.

Your Grandfather, who was a solider for 35 years.

A local farmer, who has been farming for years and uses lots of pesticides.

Your aunt, who is a nurse at GPHC and has to manage an x-ray machine from time to time.

How can we know to what extent environmental air pollution harms population health?

Calculating the environmental burden of disease.

It is impossible to know, we can only imagine because it cannot be quantified.

By counting how many people die each year in a city due to diseases caused by air pollution.

By calculating the ratio of factories and inhabitants in an area.

Which of the following local authority in charge of Environmental issues and protection?

Conservation International (CI)

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Which of the following WOULD NOT be regarded as a measure to avoid the impact of water pollution in our health?

Not dump garbage in rivers or around them.

Never dispose of cooking fats and oils by pouring them down the sink.

Encourage your government to implement environment friendly policies.

Sit all day and watch television programs about partying lifestyles.

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