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$100 Question from Hazards

Which type of hazard is a poor diet considered?

$100 Answer from Hazards

Cultural Hazard

$200 Question from Hazards

Which type of hazard is a flood considered?

$200 Answer from Hazards

Physical Hazard

$300 Question from Hazards

Which type of hazard is a bee sting considered?

$300 Answer from Hazards

Biological Hazard

$400 Question from Hazards

Which type of hazard is a fire considered?

$400 Answer from Hazards

Physical Hazard

$500 Question from Hazards

Which type of hazard is mercury in fish considered?

$500 Answer from Hazards

Chemical Hazard

$100 Question from Toxicology

The amount of a substance that someone has ingested, inhaled, or absorbed is known a the ________.

$100 Answer from Toxicology

Dose

$200 Question from Toxicology

The process in which some toxins increase in concentration as they move up the food chain is known as ____________.

$200 Answer from Toxicology

Biomagnification

$300 Question from Toxicology

The reaction that an individual has as a result of exposure to a chemical is called the ____________.

$300 Answer from Toxicology

Response

$400 Question from Toxicology

_____-soluble toxins can accumulate in body tissues and cells.

$400 Answer from Toxicology

Fat-soluble toxins

$500 Question from Toxicology

How long a chemical stays in the environment is known as _________.

$500 Answer from Toxicology

Persistence

$100 Question from Chemicals

What are two reasons why lab rats are used for chemical studies more frequently than humans?

$100 Answer from Chemicals

They are cheaper, more numerous, have less genetic variability, and it isn’t considered unethical by as many people.

$200 Question from Chemicals

What is the LD50 of this substance?

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$200 Answer from Chemicals

9.5 units

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$300 Question from Chemicals

What does the expression, “The dose makes the poison” mean?

$300 Answer from Chemicals

Any substance can be harmful if enough is consumed.

$400 Question from Chemicals

Which insecticide was widely used to kill mosquitoes and other insects, but also contributed to the thinning of bird’s egg shells?

$400 Answer from Chemicals

DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)

Chemicals that mimic natural hormones in the body are known as ___________ ___________.

$500 Question from Chemicals

Endocrine disruptors (or hormonally active agents, HAAs)

$500 Answer from Chemicals

$100 Question from Risk Analysis

A mathematical statement (like 1 in 50,000) about the likelihood of an event happening is known as a _______________.

$100 Answer from Risk Analysis

Probability

$200 Question from Risk Analysis

Which is more likely to happen: •Be hit by lightning (1 in 3 million)•Be in a train crash (1 in 20 million)

$200 Answer from Risk Analysis

Be hit by lightning (1 in 3 million)

$300 Question from Risk Analysis

In what ways does poverty lead to premature death?

$300 Answer from Risk Analysis

• Malnutrition• Unclean fresh water• Poor healthcare• Lower education levels

$400 Question from Risk Analysis

________ is America’s leading cause of preventable death.

$400 Answer from Risk Analysis

Smoking

$500 Question from Risk Analysis

Is the statement below more connected to risk assessment or risk management?“What are we going to do to reduce the risk?”

$500 Answer from Risk Analysis

Risk management

$100 Question from Potpourri

What are toxic agents that cause cancer called?

$100 Answer from Potpourri

Carcinogens

$200 Question from Potpourri

What are three main “routes of exposure” for toxins?

$200 Answer from Potpourri

1.Inhalation2.Ingestion3.Absorption

$300 Question from Potpourri

True or False:Antibiotics should be used to treat viral diseases.

$300 Answer from Potpourri

False – only bacterial diseases/infections should be treated with antibiotics.

$400 Question from Potpourri

Name two examples of transmissible diseases and two examples of non-transmissible diseases.

$400 Answer from Potpourri

• Transmissible:– Malaria

– HIV/AIDS

– Cholera

– Tuberculosis

– Syphilis

– Smallpox

– Hepatitis B

• Non-transmissible:– Heart disease

– Most cancers

– Diabetes

– Asthma

– Emphysema

– Alzheimer’s disease

– Parkinson’s disease

$500 Question from Potpourri

What term is given to nonhuman carriers of disease (such as mosquitoes and ticks)?

$500 Answer from Potpourri

Vectors

Final Jeopardy

What is the definition of a poison?

Final Jeopardy Answer

It is a chemical that has a median lethal dose of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.