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EHST 2110 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Name: Score:82 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 82
What are "bottle bills"?
Laws which require payment of a deposit on any beverage container purchased; amount
is refunded when container is returned to redemption center
Cool running water 70°F or lower
Bottom of the refrigerator
Microwave (provided food will be cooked immediately)
Part of the cooking process
Sharply reducing fertilizer runoff from agricultural lands in the upper Midwest
Nutrient rich organic material at the bottom of sewage
Term 2 of 82
List 2 Control Measures for Construction Activities
Agriculture
Construction activities
Urban street runoff
Acid mine drainage
Airborne pollutants
Dumping of pills in the toilet
Excess secreted from the body by using the bathroom
Retain existing trees
Retention ponds
Limiting time on site/scheduling
Mulches
Cover vegetation
Limit use of fertilizer
Vegetation
,Term 3 of 82
To what do charges of "environmental racism" refer?
Cholera outbreak in London, fecal waste was being dumped into cesspools,
contaminating Broad Street Well water. John Snow predicted the Well was the cause so
he removed the handle on the Well and the outbreak stopped
An information clearinghouse for hazardous wastes, putting waste generators in contact
with firms which could use those wastes as a raw material
The waste gets burned and goes through a facility and then it is turned into electricity
The fact that a disproportionate number of undesirable waste management facilities,
waste dumps, or sources of pollution are in poor or minority communities
Term 4 of 82
Bacteria grow best within a narrow temperature range called the temperature danger zone.
The temperature danger zone is between:
41° and 135°F
Grit tank
Hand washing
Adulteration
Term 5 of 82
The incidence of both tapeworm and roundworm infections in the U.S. has been increasing
because of the growing popularity of which ethnic specialty?
El Niño
Sushi
Paper
The Jungle
,Term 6 of 82
What contaminant in drinking water is regulated because of its potential for causing "blue baby
disease"?
Methane
Dioxpin
Paper
Nitrate
Term 7 of 82
Two (2) methods of hazardous waste disposal
Septic tank and soil absorption field
To prevent infection of listeria
Secure landfill and deep well injection
Carcinogenic food additives
Term 8 of 82
The toxins produced as a result improper handling of fish (time/temperature abuse) is called:
Scombroid poisoning
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Food waste
Cryptosporidium
, Term 9 of 82
Which microorganism does not require PHF to get around?
Viruses
Salmonella
Nitrate
Paper
Term 10 of 82
Which of the following would be an example of "source separation" of wastes, aimed at
encouraging resource recovery?
The symptoms of intoxication appear quickly, within a few hours
Municipal curbside collection programs, picking up newspapers, glass and aluminum
containers set out by homeowners in residential neighborhoods
Cryptosporidium
Discontinuing use of disposable items, substituting reusable products for throwaways
Term 11 of 82
The nutrient-rich organic materials (sludge) resulting from the treatment of domestic sewage
at a wastewater treatment facility are called:
Adulteration
Biosolids
Sushi
Scombroid poisoning
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