Population Week 3

Question 1

Urbanization

Answer 1

The process of making an area more urban which means increasing the density of people per unit per area of land

Question 2

Suburbs

Answer 2

Areas that surround metropolitan centers

Question 3

Saltwater intrusion

Answer 3

An infiltration of salt water in an area where groundwater pressure has been reduced as a result of a cone of depression from extensive pumping of wells

Question 4

Impervious surface

Answer 4

Pavement or other surfaces that do not allow water penetration

Question 5

Urban sprawl

Answer 5

Urbanized areas that spread into rural areas

Question 6

Urban blight

Answer 6

A lack of support for and deterioration of urban communities

Question 7

Urban runoff

Answer 7

Runoff, water that does not evapotranspire or infiltrate the soul, that occurs in an urban area

Question 8

Retrospective study\

Answer 8

A study that monitors people who have been exposed to an environmental hazard, such as a harmful chemical, at some time in the past

Question 9

Prospective study

Answer 9

A study that monitors people who might become exposed to an environmental hazard, such as a harmful chemical, at some time in the future

Question 10

Disease

Answer 10

Any impaired function of the body with a characteristic set of symptoms

Question 11

Infectious disease

Answer 11

A disease caused by a pathogen

Question 12

Acute disease

Answer 12

A disease that rapidly impairs the functioning of a person’s body

Question 13

Chronic disease

Answer 13

A disease that slowly impairs the functioning of a person’s body

Question 14

Epidemic

Answer 14

A situation in which a pathogen causes a rapid increase in disease

Question 15

Pandemic

Answer 15

An epidemic that occurs over a large geographic region, such as an entire continent

Question 16

Dysentery

Answer 16

An infection of the intestines that causes diarrhea, which results in dehydration and can cause death

Question 17

Plague

Answer 17

An infectious disease caused by a bacterium that is carried by fleas

Question 18

Malaria

Answer 18

An infectious disease caused by one of several species of protists in the genus Plasmodium

Question 19

Tuberculosis

Answer 19

A highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily infects the lungs

Question 20

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Answer 20

An infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Question 21

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Answer 21

A type of virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiceny Syndrome (AIDS)

Question 22

Ebola hemorrhagic fever

Answer 22

An infectious disease with high death rates, caused by several species of Ebola viruses

Question 23

Mad cow disease

Answer 23

A disease in which prions mutate into deadly pathogens and slowly damage a cow’s nervous systems

Question 24

Prion

Answer 24

A small, beneficial protein that occasionally mutates into a pathogen

Question 25

Swine flu

Answer 25

A type of flu caused by the H1N1 virus

Question 26

Bird flu

Answer 26

A type of flu caused by H5N1 virus

Question 27

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Answer 27

A type of flu caused by coronavirus

Question 28

MERS-CoV

Answer 28

A coronavirus that causes the disease known as Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome

Question 29

SAR-CoV-2

Answer 29

A coronavirus that causes the disease known as Covid-19

Question 30

West Nile virus

Answer 30

A virus that lives in hundreds of species of birds and is transmitted amount birds by mosquitoes

Question 31

Lyme disease

Answer 31

A disease caused by a bacterium that is transmitted by ticks

Question 32

Zika virus disease

Answer 32

A disease caused by a pathogen that causes fetuses to be born with unusually small heads and damaged brains

Question 33

Clean Water Act

Answer 33

Legislation that supports the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and recreation in and on the water by maintaining and, when necessary, restoring the chemical, physical, and biological properties of surface waters

Question 34

SAfe Drinking Water Act

Answer 34

Legislation that sets the national standards for safe drinking water

Question 35

Maximum contaminant level (MCL)

Answer 35

The standard for safe drinking water established by the EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act