Chapter 10: Product Control

Question 1

Which spill control tactic is a physical and/or chemical event occurring during contact between materials that have an attraction for each other? (480)
A. Absorption
B. Adsorption
C. Vapor suppression
D. Blanketing/covering

Answer 1

Absorption

Question 2

Adsorption is primarily used to control: (480)
A. gas leaks.
B. vapor dispersion.
C. large liquid spills.
D. shallow liquid spills.

Answer 2

shallow liquid spills.

Question 3

Which spill control tactic is performed with tarps, plastic sheeting, and salvage covers? (480)
A. Absorption
B. Adsorption
C. Vapor suppression
D. Blanketing/covering

Answer 3

Blanketing/covering

Question 4

Which spill control tactic is an action taken to control the flow of liquid hazardous materials away from the point of discharge? (481)
A. Retention
B. Ventilation
C. Vapor dispersion
D. Vapor suppression

Answer 4

Retention

Question 5

Which spill control tactic reduces the emission of vapors at a hazardous materials spill? (482)
A. Retention
B. Ventilation
C. Vapor dispersion
D. Vapor suppression

Answer 5

Vapor suppression

Question 6

Which fire-fighting foam is used in storage tank and subsurface fire fighting? (484)
A. Fluoroprotein foam
B. High-expansion foam
C. Alcohol-resistant AFFF (AR-AFFF)
D. Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF)

Answer 6

Fluoroprotein foam

Question 7

Fluoroprotein foam maintains: (484)
A. low viscosity at low temperatures.
B. high viscosity at low temperatures.
C. low viscosity at high temperatures.
D. high viscosity at high temperatures.

Answer 7

low viscosity at low temperatures.

Question 8

Which fire-fighting foam is premixable in portable fire extinguishers and apparatus water tanks? (484)
A. Fluoroprotein foam
B. High-expansion foam
C. Alcohol-resistant AFFF (AR-AFFF)
D. Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF)

Answer 8

Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF)

Question 9

When applied to polar solvent fuels, which fire-fighting foam creates a membrane between the fuel and the finished foam? (484)
A. Fluoroprotein foam
B. High-expansion foam
C. Alcohol-resistant AFFF (AR-AFFF)
D. Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF)

Answer 9

Alcohol-resistant AFFF (AR-AFFF)

Question 10

Which of the following is an application of high-expansion foam? (485)
A. Baled storage fuels
B. Concealed spaces
C. Class B fire applications
D. High surface-tension fuels

Answer 10

Concealed spaces

Question 11

High-expansion foam concentrates have: (485)
A. poor heat resistance.
B. good heat resistance.
C. poor water retention.
D. good water retention.

Answer 11

poor heat resistance.

Question 12

Drainage time is the time required for \_\_\_ of the total liquid solution to drain from the foam. (485)
A. ⅛
B. ¼
C. ½
D. ¾

Answer 12

¼

Question 13

Which of the following is a consideration when using foam for vapor suppression? (486-487)
A. Water will solidify a foam blanket.
B. The material must be above its boiling point.
C. Water destroys and washes away foam blankets.
D. The film preceding a foam blanket is a reliable vapor
suppressant.

Answer 13

Water destroys and washes away foam blankets.

Question 14

Which spill control tactic directs the course of airborne hazardous materials? (487)
A. Dilution
B. Dispersion
C. Ventilation
D. Vapor dispersion

Answer 14

Vapor dispersion

Question 15

Which spill control tactic removes harmful airborne particles, vapors, or gases when spills occur inside a structure? (487)
A. Dispersion
B. Ventilation
C. Dissolution
D. Neutralization

Answer 15

Ventilation

Question 16

Which spill control tactic is the breaking up of hazardous materials that spilled on a solid or liquid surface? (488)
A. Dilution
B. Dispersion
C. Neutralization
D. Vapor dispersion

Answer 16

Dispersion

Question 17

Which spill control tactic is the application of water to a water-soluble material to reduce the hazard? (488)
A. Dilution
B. Dispersion
C. Dissolution
D. Vapor dispersion

Answer 17

Dilution

Question 18

Which spill control tactic is only used on water-soluble gases? (488)
A. Dispersion
B. Ventilation
C. Dissolution
D. Neutralization

Answer 18

Dissolution

Question 19

Which spill control tactic is raising or lowering the pH of corrosive materials to render them neutral? (488)
A. Dilution
B. Neutralization
C. Vapor dispersion
D. Vapor suppression

Answer 19

Neutralization

Question 20

What is the goal of leak control? (489)
A. To suppress the product’s escape
B. To safely disperse the product’s escape
C. To ventilate a structure after a product release
D. To contain the release in the original container

Answer 20

To contain the release in the original container

Question 21

Leak control is considered a (an) \_\_\_ action. (489)
A. offensive
B. defensive
C. intervention
D. nonintervention

Answer 21

offensive

Question 22

Leak control puts personnel at great risk because they enter the: (490)
A. hot zone.
B. cold zone.
C. hazardous materials area.
D. decontamination corridor.

Answer 22

hot zone

Question 23

What effect does fire control have on the damage, harm, and effect of fire at hazardous materials incidents? (492)
A. Minimizes all aspects
B. Maximizes all aspects
C. Has no effect on any aspects
D. Completely eliminates all aspects

Answer 23

Minimizes all aspects

Question 24

Gas-fed fires burning around relief valves or piping should: (492)
A. be extinguished immediately.
B. only be extinguished by technician-level responders.
C. NOT be extinguished unless the leaking can be stopped.
D. be flooded with copious amounts of high-expansion foam.

Answer 24

NOT be extinguished unless the leaking can be stopped.

Question 25

A burning tank should be cooled on the: (493)
A. upwind side.
B. entire surface.
C. downwind side.
D. top and bottom.

Answer 25

entire surface.