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Environmental Health and Toxicology

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Access targeted questions on environmental health, pollution impacts, and toxicology fundamentals. The topics cover the health effects of air pollution, radiation, and chemical exposure. This material is highly relevant for environmental science tests and general awareness sections of competitive exams.

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Environmental Health and Toxicology Questions

Multiple choice evs when there is a disaster disaster and types disasters forest fire

Cyclonic winds raise the risk of 

  1. Non- communicable disease

  2. Congenital disease

  3. Infectious disease

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cyclones often disrupt sanitation and water supply systems, creating conditions that facilitate the spread of infectious diseases like cholera or typhoid.

Multiple choice zoology human influences on the environment carbon cycle ozone layer depletion and causes depletion of ozone layer

Increase in carbon dioxide in atmosphere is harmful because it

  1. traps heat

  2. causes respiratory disorders

  3. forms smog

  4. increases turbidity
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Carbon dioxide is one of the most abundant and major greenhouse gas which entraps the heat and causes the rise in temperature of the earth surface hence is greatly responsible for global warming also.

so the correct answer is 'traps heat'.

Multiple choice zoology some common diseases diseases caused by protozoa protozoan disease protozoa: benefits and harmful effects

Microbiological pollutants, cause sickness in humans, known as

  1. Pathogenic organism

  2. Decomposers

  3. Eutrophication

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Microbiological pollutants that cause disease are defined as pathogens or pathogenic organisms. Decomposers break down organic matter, and eutrophication is a process of nutrient enrichment in water bodies.

Multiple choice evs - i the environment and us soil and its conservations soil pollution-control protecting our environment

Which of the following is an effect of soil pollution?

  1. Sewage sludge is contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viruses and worms.

  2. Loss of fertility

  3. Various diseases related to digestive system

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • Soil pollution is defined as the presence of toxic chemicals (pollutants or contaminants) in soil, in high enough concentrations to pose a risk to human health and/or the ecosystem.
  • The effects of soil pollution are:
  • Sewage sludge is contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and worms.
  • Loss of fertility of soil.
  • Results in Various diseases related to the digestive system.
  • So, the correct answer is 'All the above'.
Multiple choice chemistry rocks and minerals coal and its products study of coal coal

Pneumoconiosis is caused by inhalation of?

  1. coal dust

  2. silica dust

  3. cotton fibre dust

  4. asbestor dust
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,B,C,D Correct answer
Explanation
Pneumoconiosis caused by working around dust from cotton fibers and  includes silica asbestos.
Minerals with combined exposures to coal and silica dust can get mixed dust causes Pneumoconiosis by inhalation of coal mine.

conclusion: all the four answers are matchable.
Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Addiction of LSD will eventually leads to

  1. Damage of kidneys

  2. Damage of lungs

  3. Mental and emotional disturbances

  4. Hallucination
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

LSD is lysergic acid diethylamide. It is the one of the most potent, mood-changing chemicals. It is a hallucinogen and is well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open-eye visuals, synesthesia, an altered sense of time and spiritual experiences.
Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice

Working in a coal mine caused this

  1. Blue Lung

  2. Dead Lung

  3. Black Lung

  4. Red Lung
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Black lung disease, or coal worker's pneumoconiosis, is a condition caused by long-term inhalation of coal dust. It causes scarring of the lung tissue.

Multiple choice physics pressure in fluids and atmospheric pressure pressure in air introduction to atmospheric pressure pressure exerted by air devices to measure pressure

Which of the following are the common consequences of atmospheric pressure in our daily life.

  1. Sucking a drink with a straw

  2. Filling a syringe with a liquid

  3. Filling ink in a fountain pen

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Liquid flows from higher pressure region to the lower pressure region.

Thus sucking a drink with a straw, filling a syringe with a liquid and filling ink in a fountain pen are the consequences of atmospheric pressure.

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence environmental pollution and industries air pollution and its effects the environment and us environment and conservation

A pollutant that causes irritation in eyes, throat and nose.

  1. CO
  2. $SO _2$
  3. $CH _4$

  4. Chlorofluorocarbons
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Inhalation of SO$ _2$ irritates the nose, throat, and airways to cause coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, or a tight feeling around the chest. The effects of sulphur dioxide are felt just after 10-15 min of inhalation.

So, the correct option is 'SO$ _2$'.

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence environmental pollution and industries air pollution and its effects the environment and us environment and conservation

Disease aggravated by pollution is ________.

  1. Scurvy

  2. Rheumatism

  3. Haemophilia

  4. Bronchitis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Air pollution is responsible for various pulmonary or respiratory diseases like asthma, emphysema, bronchitis etc. 

A. Scurvy is the bleeding disease of gums caused by the deficiency of vitamin C.
B. Rheumatism is the inflammatory disease of the membrane of the synovial joints caused due to uric acid accumulation.
C. Haemophilia is the disease related to the absence of blood clotting caused due to the genetic mutation.
D. Bronchitis is the inflammatory disease of the bronchioles caused due to air pollution.
Hence, the correct answer is 'Bronchitis'.