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ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERING
PRQUIZ 2

Name: _______________________________________
Course & yr: _________________
Date:______________________
Schedule: ____________________

score: _____/___

I. Modified Matching Type. Match Column A (answer on the first blank space) with Column B, and
match the pathogen described in Column B, with column C. Use capital letters only. (20 points)
Column A
____ ____ 1. Causes Ascariasis Lumbricoides by a
Roundworm infestation.
____ ____ 2. Causes cholera and extreme diarrhea.
____ ____ 3. Carried by wild animals near natural

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____
____
____
____
____

Column B
A) Salmonella

water systems, causing the

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Helminth
Backpackers disease.
____ 4. Causes Enterobiasis by a Pinworm.
____ 5. Whipworm infestation
____ 6. Causes Balantidiasis; Diarrhea, Dysentery
____ 7. Amoebiasis, diarrhea w/ bleeding
____ 8. Beef tapeworm infestation
____ 9. Food poisoning (12-72 hrs after infection)
____ 10. Causes Jaundice, fever (Weils disease)

Column C

B) Trichuris trichiura
C) Vibrio Comma

VV) Bacteria
XX) Virus
YY) Protozoa

D) Entamoeba histolytica ZZ)

E) Leptospira
F) Roundworm
G) Taenia saginata
H) Enterobius vericularis
I) Balantidium coli
J) Giardia lamblia

II. True or False: Write TRUE if the statement is correct, and write FALSE if otherwise. (10 pts.)
_______ 1. The evaporated water rises into the atmosphere until the higher temperatures aloft causes it
to condense and then precipitate in the form most globally as rain but sometimes as snow.
_______ 2. Water has the property of becoming denser when it is cooled down to its solid form, ice.
_______ 3. Shallow bodies of water are more affected than deeper bodies of water.
_______ 4. ABS a detergent compound which causes frothing and foaming in waste water. It is now being
substituted by LAS which is biodegradable.
_______ 5. Bone Fluorosis can only affect children at the initial growth stage of the teeth. Adults cannot
be affected once their teeth have finished breaking out.
_______ 6. Much of the current environmental crisis is rooted in and exacerbated by the widening gap
between rich and poor nations.
_______ 7. Under nomenclature used to name chemical compounds, hydrogen monoxide is the scientific
name for water, though it is almost never used.
_______ 8. Turbidity is a direct quantitative measure of suspended solids.
_______ 9. At elevated temperatures and increased metabolic rates, organisms that are more efficient at
food utilization flourish while others decline and are perhaps eliminated.
_______ 10. Dissolved oxygen levels are increased at increased temperatures, and causes increased
metabolic rates. Organisms that are more efficient at food utilization flourish while others decline and
are perhaps eliminated.
III. Identification. Write the word/term described on the blanks provided. STRICTLY Wrong spelling
wrong. (15 pts.)
________________________ 1. A colorless, odorless & tasteless gas occurring naturally in ground water.
________________________ 2. Human senses of taste and smell.

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________________________ 3. Enrichment of an ecosystem can be a problem in marine habitats such as

lakes as it can cause this.
________________________ 4. Various compounds of nitrogen and oxygen are formed in a process called.
________________________ 6. Common water-contact disease in the world, affecting approximately 200 M
people.
________________________ 7. Bacteria that causes Food Poisoning.
________________________ 8. A stratum containing a substantial amount of groundwater.
________________________ 9. Refers to the process where contained liquid from plants is converted to
vapor and released to the atmosphere.
________________________ 10. A measure of the extent to which light is either absorbed or scattered by
suspended material in water.
________________________ 11. This is the stratum containing water is trapped between two impervious
layers, it is known as.
________________________ 12. Meaning of the acronym MCL.
________________________ 13. Very small particles that are suspended but often exhibit many
characteristics of dissolved substances.
________________________ 14. Suspend Solids and Dissolved Solids.
________________________ 15. Excessive nitrate poisoning on babies.
IV. Matching Type: Match Column A with Column B. Capital Letters only. (20 pts.)
COLUMN A
COLUMN B
_______ 1. Next to calcium, phosphorus is the most abundant mineral
A) Alkaline Salts
in the body.
_______ 2. Essential to the growth and reproduction of
B) Metallic
Salts
plants and animals and aquatic species depend on the surrounding
water to provide the nutrients, does not normally exist as a single atom.
_______ 3. Give a salty taste to water.
C) Alpha
_______ 4. High-frequency electromagnetic radiation; have no
charge but have a lot of energy.
D) Helminths
_______ 5. Accumulation of fluoride.
E) Gamma
_______ 6. Group of minerals that have no known function in the body
and, in fact, are harmful.
F) Eutrophication
_______ 7. Positively charged; fairly large, which means they have
a difficult time getting through materials like clothes and paper.
G) Beta
_______ 8. An outbreak of an infectious disease spreading widely in an area.
H)
Phosphorus
_______ 9. Imparts bitter taste to water.
I) Virus
_______ 10. One of the most important parameters.
J) Apparent
_______ 11. Can be absorbed and can be accumulated in the body,
and can be eliminated by the kidney if permitted.
K) True
_______ 12. Easily penetrate materials like clothes, and they can
even get deep into your skin where they can do harm to your cells.
L)
Nitrogen
_______ 13. Color contributed by dissolved solids that remain after
the removal of suspended solids.
M)
Epidemiology
_______ 14. Environment becomes enriched with nutrients.
N)
Bone Fluorosis
_______ 15. Study of the causes of a disease spreading in a community.
O)
Microbiology

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_______ 16. Parasitic Worms.

_______ 17. The study of microorganisms and their activities.
Metals
_______ 18. Color partly due to suspended solids.
Temperature
_______ 19. Lowest form of animal life.
_______ 20. Smallest biological structures which are known to contain
all the genetic information necessary for their own reproduction.

P) Toxic Metals
Q) Heavy
R)
S) Epidemic
T) Protozoa

V. Multiple Choice. Choose from the following fresh surface water and coastal marine water
classification and uses that fits best as described (10 pts.):
Fresh Surface Water Classifications: AA, A, B, C, D (choices for numbers 1 to 5)
Coastal Marine Water Classifications: SA, SB, SC, SD (choices for numbers 6 to 10)
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
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1. For agriculture, irrigation and livestock.

2. Bathing, swimming.
3. Watersheds.
4. Water supply that will require complete treatment.
5. Recreational water, boating.
6. Spawning for chanos chanos or bangus.
7. Bathing, swimming, skin diving.
8. Mangrove/ marshy areas.
9. Coral reef parks; water suitable for propagation of survival and harvesting of shellfish.
10. Cooling water.

VI. Modified Matching Type. Match Column A (answer on the first blank space) with Column B, and
match your corresponding answer in Column B that is related or describes it with column C. Use capital
letters only. (20 pts.)
Column A
____ ____ 1. Foaming agent for soaps & detergents.
____ ____ 2. Substances that produce this will impart
mg/L
a taste as well.
____ ____ 3. Quantity of ions in water that will react
to neutralize hydrogen ions.
____ ____ 4. Halogen added to water, and suspected
mg/L
To be a carcinogenic.
____ ____ 5. Can be partly due to suspended solids
or contributed by dissolved solids.
____ ____ 6. The material remaining in the water after
corrosive
filtration.
____ ____ 7. Metal industry waste is the common
units
source of this water quality.
____ ____ 8. ABS (alkyl benzene sulfonate)
and
pH 6.5-8.5
LAS (linear alkylbenzene sulfonate).
____ ____ 9. Solid particles which remain in

Column B
A) Color
B) Corrosiveness

Column C
ZZ) 500 mg/L
YY)
0.50

C) Foaming Agent
XX) Soft
D) Total Dissolved Solids VV) 30 mg/L
E) Hardness
UU)
250
F) Taste and Odor

TT) 3 TON

G) Sulfates

SS)

H) Alkalinity

RR) 15 color

I) Suspended Solids

J) Chlorine

Non-

QQ)

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Suspension in water due to the motion of water.

____ ____ 10. Concentration of all multivalent
cations in solution.

VII. Enumeration:
5 PHYSICAL WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS
1.
2.
3.
4.
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4 Classes of Pathogens
1.
2.
3.
4.