Daily Living | Health Effects | Disposal |
Safer Substitutes | Environmental Effects |
---|---|---|---|---|
10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
Daily Living | Score = 10 |
What household product may work by deadening your nasal nerve endings so that you can not smell? | |
Air fresheners |
Daily Living | Score = 10 |
Name two hazardous products often found in homes. | |
Accept all reasonable answers |
Daily Living | Score = 20 |
How are the solvents used in household products different from industrial and commercial solvents? | |
There are no differences. |
Daily Living | Score = 20 |
Name a popular cosmetic that is mostly composed of organic solvents. | |
Nail polish or nail polish remover |
Daily Living | Score = 20 |
How much trash does the average American produce per day? | |
4 to 6 pounds |
Daily Living | Score = 30 |
You have some leftover window cleaner. What should you do with it? | |
Use it up, give it to someone who can use it, or flush it down the drain with plenty of water. |
Daily Living | Score = 30 |
When a car is running in a garage that is attached to a house, why should you always be careful that the door to a house is closed and the garage door is open? | |
To avoid breathing poisonous carbon monoxide fumes from the car exhaust |
Daily Living | Score = 30 |
Name two pieces of safety equipment you should wear when you add gasoline to your lawn mower. | |
Gloves and goggles. |
Daily Living | Score = 40 |
Name three words found on product labels that indicate that the product is hazardous. | |
Danger, poison, warning, caution, irritant, caustic, flammable, combustible, radioactive, or explosive |
Daily Living | Score = 40 |
It is your turn to clean the stubborn stain in the bathtub. Why should you never add ammonia to strengthen the power of chlorine-based scouring powders? | |
Ammonia plus chlorine react to produce a poisonous gas |
Daily Living | Score = 50 |
Why are consumers often uncertain about the ingredients in the products that they buy and use? | |
Vague terms are used; Label requirements are not specific; Chemical terms are unfamiliar; A given ingredient may have more than one name. |
Health Effects | Score = 10 |
Define "toxic." | |
A substance that can cause injury, illness or death |
Health Effects | Score = 10 |
How long does it take an acutely toxic substance to produce adverse health effects? | |
Immediately or in a very short time period (second/minutes/hours) |
Health Effects | Score = 10 |
How can you protect your eyes from splashes when pouring hazardous liquids like bleach? | |
Wear protective goggles |
Health Effects | Score = 20 |
How can you protect yourself when using toxic products that are absorbed through the skin, such as organic solvents? | |
Wear gloves and protective clothing |
Health Effects | Score = 20 |
What is chronic exposure to a toxic substance? | |
Exposure to small amounts of a toxic substance over a long period of time |
Health Effects | Score = 20 |
Name three ways toxic substances can enter your body. | |
Inhalation, ingestion, skin contact, and skin absorption |
Health Effects | Score = 30 |
You are going to paint your room with oil-based paint. Why should you remove your soft contact lenses before you begin? | |
Soft contact lenses can absorb chemical vapors and hold them against your eye: can cause eye damage |
Health Effects | Score = 30 |
What would happen if you touched a hazardous product that is caustic or corrosive? | |
It would burn and destroy your skin where contacted. |
Health Effects | Score = 30 |
Name two of the actions you should take when the directions of on a product label instruct you to avoid breathing the vapors. | |
Work outdoors, open a windows, have a fan blowing the vapors away from you, or wear a respirator |
Health Effects | Score = 40 |
What do the "active" ingredients in a pesticide do? | |
They kill or repel a pest |
Health Effects | Score = 40 |
While you are babysitting, the child swallows a toxic substance. What should you do? | |
Call the Poison Center, the local emergency room, or trauma center. |
Health Effects | Score = 40 |
You need to but some laundry soap and you notice that the label on one brands reads "nontoxic." What is the federal regulatory definition of nontoxic? | |
There is no definition - nontoxic is an advertising word. |
Health Effects | Score = 50 |
Your friend has spilled acid on her arm. What should you do? | |
Remove any clothing with acid on it and flood the skin with water, then seek medical advice. DO NOT attempt to neutralize the acid on her skin. |
Health Effects | Score = 50 |
Why are aerosol sprays potentially harmful to your health? | |
You could breathe the particles when they are dispersed: the can could explode when near a source of sparks or heat. |
Health Effects | Score = 50 |
Name one of the two federal regulations that is responsible for determining the labeling requirements of household hazardous substances. | |
FHSA - Federal Hazardous Substances Act or FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act |
Disposal | Score = 10 |
You helped change the motor oil in the family car. What should you do with the used motor oil? | |
Recycle it by taking it to the nearest collection point for used oil, such as an automotive supply center or service center. |
Disposal | Score = 10 |
Name one household hazardous product that can be recycled. | |
Many possible answers including motor oil, batteries, paint and paint thinner. |
Disposal | Score = 10 |
What is a solid waste transfer station? | |
A central collection facility for the garbage picked up at the curb/alley. |
Disposal | Score = 20 |
When is a product hazardous? | |
When its use or disposal poses a threat to your health or the environment. |
Disposal | Score = 20 |
One gallon of oil can contaminate the taste of how many gallons of water? | |
One million gallons of water |
Disposal | Score = 20 |
What is a leachate? | |
Liquid material that runs off or seeps down from the surface into the ground water and surface water. Leachate may contain toxic materials. |
Disposal | Score = 30 |
Where od storm sewers generally lead? | |
Directly to surface waters such as rivers, lakes, creeks and streams. |
Disposal | Score = 30 |
Where does hazardous waste go when it is placed in the trash? | |
Trash collectors take it to the municipal landfill - may depend of your location. |
Disposal | Score = 40 |
Where od wastes and water go when flushed into the sanitary system? | |
To the local wastewater treatment facility - may depend on your location. |
Disposal | Score = 40 |
Where do wastes and water go when flushed into a septic tank system? | |
Into the septic tank and then into a drainage field |
Disposal | Score = 40 |
If your home is connected to a sanitary sewage system, diluted antifreeze can be disposed of by flushing it down the drain. Why should you avoid doing this if you are connected to a septic system? | |
Heavy concentrations of certain chemicals in a septic tank can slow down or destroy the microorganisms that make the system work properly. |
Disposal | Score = 50 |
What can happen when hazardous waste is placed in a landfill? | |
Any liquids, heavy metals, and water-soluble chemicals may be carried as leachate into the ground water and surface water, thereby contaminating them |
Disposal | Score = 50 |
You have used the pesticide in a container and rinsed the container three time. What should you do with the rinse water? | |
Use it as though it were the full strength of the pesticide. Do not dump it, store it or pour it down a drain. |
Disposal | Score = 50 |
Why are empty aerosol cans still hazardous? | |
The cans retain pressure. If heated or punctured they can explode with great force. |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 10 |
You are cooking a hamburger and the grease catches on fire. What common kitchen product could you use to put out the fire? | |
Baking soda or table salt |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 10 |
You painted your room using latex paint. What solvent will you use to clean your brushes and yourself? | |
Water |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 20 |
Name two common kitchen products that can be used in safe household cleaners. | |
Baking soda, salt, vinegar, cream of tartar, club soda and lemon juice |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 20 |
What safe bathroom product can be used to clean and polish gold and silver? | |
Toothpaste |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 30 |
You borrowed your sister's blouse and spilled chocolate ice cream on it. What kitchen product can remove the stain safely? | |
Club soda (soak in cold water before washing) |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 30 |
Name a safer alternative to using an aerosol can. | |
Using a pump spray bottle, spray gun or paint brush |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 30 |
Name a common herb that will repel mosquitoes when planted around your home. | |
Basil or Tansy |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 40 |
There are many natural predators that help control pests around our homes. Name two of them. | |
Frogs, spiders, ladybugs, praying mantis, dragonflies, birds and cats |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 50 |
Name four of the words found on labels that tell you a product is hazardous. | |
Danger, poison, warning, caution, irritant, caustic, flammable, combustible, radioactive and explosive. |
Safer Substitutes | Score = 50 |
Name two advantages of using safer alternatives. | |
Accept all reasonable answers, such as safer for the environment when produced, used and disposed, less health risk to user and those around the user. |
Environmental Effects | Score = 10 |
What do the letters "DNR" stand for? | |
Department of Natural Resources |
Environmental Effects | Score = 10 |
What do the letters "ppm" stand for? | |
parts per million |
Environmental Effects | Score = 10 |
What do the letters "EPA" stand for? | |
Environmental Protection Agency |
Environmental Effects | Score = 20 |
Why do small children and animals sometimes taste and drink antifreeze even though it is poisonous? | |
Because it has a sweet taste and attractive color |
Environmental Effects | Score = 20 |
How are wastes broken down in a septic tank? | |
Through the actions of bacteria and microorganisms. |
Environmental Effects | Score = 30 |
What is a "food chain"? | |
The link between organisms in an ecosystem that begins with the primary producers (plants), the organisms that eat then and those that eat each other (animals, fungi and microorganisms). |
Environmental Effects | Score = 30 |
What does a solvent do? | |
Dissolves another substance |
Environmental Effects | Score = 40 |
What is an aquifer? | |
An underground geologic formation which holds and can transport water. |
Environmental Effects | Score = 40 |
How can improper disposal of hazardous wastes into a storm sewer disrupt the food chain of an aquatic environment? | |
The wastes could kill the primary producers (such as phytoplankton) leaving the food chain without a base. |
Environmental Effects | Score = 50 |
Define bioconcentration. | |
The concentration of chemicals in the fatty tissues of living organisms. |
Environmental Effects | Score = 50 |
Define bioaccumulation. | |
The concentration of a particular substance in the bodies of organisms, increasing with the animal's level in the food chain such that animals at the top of the chain have the highest concentrations of the substance in their body tissues. |