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Questions
1. You know that keeping your kitchen clean and free of food debris will help keep ants and cockroaches away. What type of pest control is this?
a. All of the above
b. Cultural control
c. Natural enemies
d. Natural chemical control
2. Foodborne illness caused by E. Coli 0157:H7 can lead to a serious, life-threatening illness that damages your kidneys and can lead to death.
a. True
b. False
3. You want to hold potentially hazardous foods between 40F and 140F for as long as possible, 70-90F being the ideal temperature for food safety.
a. True
b. False
4. What is a mutation?
a. Change in number of chromosomes
b. Delete a base pair
c. All of these choices
d. Add a base pair
e. None of these choices
f. Substitute a base pair
5. Your neighbor planted bamboo in his back yard, right into the ground. Now the bamboo has grown wild and is creeping into your yard. The bamboo would not be considered a pest because other than annoying you and ruining your rose garden, it is not causing you any real harm.
a. True
b. False
6. Which of these diseases is a teratogen?
a. West Nile Virus
b. Onchocerciasis
c. Malaria
d. Zika
7. A child who can't sit still, has a hard time paying attention, has difficulty learning and is unable to read could have these problems as a result of being exposed to lead in their environment.
a. True
b. False
8. Name the type of pest control used:
In India, they plant special fruit trees to attract birds to their gardens. The birds live in the trees and eat the fruit, but they also eat caterpillars and other bugs that attack the gardens.
a. This is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
b. This is setting action thresholds
c. This is cultural pest control
d. This is pest control utilizing natural enemies
9. DDT is a very effective pesticide, but was eventually banned in the U.S. due to concerns over its health impacts and the environmental problems it caused, particularly with birds of prey populations being reduced. Birds of prey are big birds that eat other birds, rodents and fish such as hawks, eagles, falcons and condors. The DDT would affect the birds of preys' eggs, making them thin and fragile and not able to survive nesting. DDT also impacts fish, smaller birds, and other species, but doesn't seem to have such dramatic effects on the smaller birds and plant-eating species as much as the big birds of prey. The fact that DDT seems to "target" birds of prey rather than others can be attributed to:
a. Birds of prey getting high levels of DDT in their diet due to eutrophication.
b. Birds of prey getting high levels of DDT in their diet due to biomagnification.
c. Birds of prey getting high concentrations of DDT in their diets due to bioaccumulation.
d. Birds of prey large physical body size makes them more vulnerable to DDT
10. The "pesticide treadmill" is MOST similar to?
a. Darwin's "Theory of Evolution"
b. The common phrase "in for a penny, in for a pound"
c. Paracelsus' "The dose makes the poison"
d. Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high"
11. Which step in Integrated Pest Management do these actions fall into (hint: they all belong to one step):
1. Pest trapping: for example, setting rodent traps or racoon traps.
2. Heat/cold treatment: for example, high heat is used in bed bug applications.
3. Physical removal: for example, picking ticks off your dog.
4. Pesticide application: for example, spraying the restaurant for cockroaches.
a. Pest prevention
b. Monitor and identify pests
c. Set action thresholds
d. Pest control
12. You are in an area with a lot of Culex mosquitos and a lot of dead birds. What should you be worried about?
a. Zika
b. Malaria
c. Lyme Disease
d. West Nile Virus
13. Any radiation exposure up to 5 Sieverts (Sv) in a 24 hour period is generally recognized as safe.
a. True
b. False
14. Which of the following food-borne illnesses can be transmitted by a sick food worker?
a. Hepatitis A
b. Norovirus
c. All of these
d. E. Coli 0157:H7
e. None of these
15. Why must we put potentially hazardous foods in the refrigerator?
a. To prevent the growth of spoilage micro-organisms.
b. To prevent the rapid growth of pathogenic organisms.
c. To kill pathogenic organisms that may exist in the food.
d. To keep freshness and quality for a longer period of time, to reduce organic waste.
16. In an area with Aedes mosquitos, you might be at higher risk for getting:
a. Zika
b. Lyme Disease
c. Malaria
d. West Nile Disease
17. Your German grandmother had terrible morning sickness when she was pregnant with your mom. She went to her German doctor and got a medication that really helped her morning sickness, but it turns out the medication Grandma took caused your mom to be born without arms. What was Grandma given?
a. Methyl Mercury
b. Diethylstilbestrol (DES)
c. Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)
d. Thalidomide
18. Which of the following is TRUE about organic foods?
a. Organic foods are generally safer to eat than traditional foods.
b. When a food product is labeled "Organic", it means the quality is guaranteed to be higher than traditional foods.
c. Organic foods can be fertilized only with natural products, like biosolids.
d. When a food product is labelled "Organic", it means the food had to be produced using renewable energy.
19. You went to a big wedding and you and over 50 other guests of the wedding got sick with diarrhea and vomiting a couple days later. Based on what you know about what is the MOST COMMON type of food borne illness, if you had to guess, what is most likely the cause of this illness?
a. Hepatitis A
b. Norovirus
c. Salmonella
d. E. Coli 0157:H7
20. You and some friends went hiking and camping on a 3-day weekend in a forested area of Tennessee. When you got home, a day or two later one of your friends started complaining of fever, headache, and body aches. You remembered that you saw a tick on your friends leg that looked like it had been there for a while, before picking it off at the end of your trip. What should you tell your friend to do?
a. Tell your friend to ask for a blood test to confirm what type of illness they have. Since ticks are "sewers of disease", it could be anything, and waiting a few days for the result of the blood test will prevent being treated with the wrong medicine.
b. Tell your friend to immediately go to the doctor ask for doxycycline, and let the doctor know that they have a tick-borne disease.
c. Tell your friend to wait and see-- if a bullseye rash develops, tell the friend to ask for ivermectin, rest, and drink plenty of fluids.
d. Tell your friend, "Why are you so gross all the time? Just wash the area of the tick bite with a strong antiseptic soap and take some Tylenol."
21. Artisanal gold mining (small scale mining done by individuals or small groups) uses elemental mercury to help separate gold from the soil. Because of this, artisanal gold mining is responsible for releasing large amounts of elemental mercury into the environment in places where the mining is done. What types of health effects might you expect to see in people exposed to the by-products of this mercury when exposed to it in their environment?
a. bloody diarrhea
b. uncontrolled itching
c. bullseye shaped rash
d. shaking and tremors
22. Which of the following is NOT true of an alpha particle?
a. If an alpha particle collides with an atom, it can knock an electron out of that atom's orbit.
b. An alpha particle is the most penetrating type of radiation.
c. An alpha particle is released by an unstable atom in order to try and become stable.
d. Alpha particles are composed of two protons and two neutrons.
23. In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, was poisoned in London. Some Russian gangsters put a radioactive substance, Polonium 210, an alpha emitter, in his tea at his hotel. Three weeks later, Alexander was dead. The guys who poisoned him lived on and were fine. Which of the following scenarios is a reasonable explanation as to why the bad guys didn't die, too?
a.They carried the Polonium 210 around in a glass vial and used gloves to prevent exposure.
b. They had built up a tolerance to Polonium 210, and therefore the dose exposure was not high enough to be lethal to them (low LD50).
c. They hid lead vests under their suits, to shield their vital organs from the Polonium 210's radiation.
d. They must have taken potassium iodide prior to handling the Polonium 210, in order to prevent their thyroids from absorbing the radiation.
24. In order to control mosquito-borne diseases, some countries have tried the strategy of using ionizing radiation to sterilize large amounts of male mosquitos, and releasing these sterilized males out to the wild to prevent females from breeding. What type of pest control is this?
a. This is a form of natural chemical control
b. This is a form of genetic control
c. This is utilizing natural enemies
d. This is cultural controls
25. Exposure to ionizing radiation can cause cancer years even decades later.
a. True
b. False