Human Impact on the Environment

Question 1

Nailah leads a very busy lifestyle and finds herself eating a lot of processed, high sodium foods. She rarely eats home-cooked food and often eats food that is high in cholesterol. What disease does Nailah have risk factors for?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: heart disease

Question 2

Candace is wanting to be sure that she is doing what she can to prevent the spread of disease. Which of the following should she be sure to do?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: Avoid contact with other people's bodily fluids.

Question 3

How did Francesco Redi disprove the idea of spontaneous generation?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: He showed that flies were not produced by meat.

Question 4

Which factors most influence whether a person will develop Alzheimer's disease?

Question 5

Heart disease is a noncommunicable disease because

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: it does not spread from person to person.

Question 6

Nailah leads a very busy lifestyle and finds herself eating a lot of processed, high sodium foods. She rarely eats home-cooked food and often eats food that is high in cholesterol. What disease does Nailah have risk factors for?

Question 7

According to the germ theory of disease, disease is caused by

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: microorganisms.

Question 8

Tobias has mononucleosis. Mononucleosis is a disease that tires and weakens the body. It is caused by a contagious virus that is transferred through direct contact. Which would be the best explanation of how Tobias contracted mononucleosis?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: Tobias drank from a water fountain that was contaminated.

Question 9

An outbreak of a disease occurs, and a scientist at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is in charge of determining the cause. She is studying the microorganism that is thought to be responsible for the disease. Which of the following would be the most helpful to the scientist?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: Koch's postulates

Question 10

Osteoporosis is more prevalent among women than men because women generally

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: have lower bone mass than men have.

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