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1
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What plays a powerful role in the transmission of health issues and infections including vector-borne diseases?

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Environment

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2
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Weather patterns that changes darastically?

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Climate Chage

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3
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Main cause of Climate Change?

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Increase in carbon dioxide concentration

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4
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How does the international community responds to climate change?

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Creating different treaties and policies

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5
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How active is mosquito activities in the Philippines?

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Very active

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6
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Which temperature do mosquitoes thrive in?

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Warm Temperature

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7
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Ideal temperature for mosquito breeding?

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Rainfall / Heavy Rainfall

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8
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What is needed on hot days for mosquitoes to stay active?

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Moisture

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9
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Weather where mosquitoes struggle to navigate?

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Rainfall & Windy

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10
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What temperature do mosquitoes become dormant?

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Cold Temperature

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11
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What kind of toxins are cancer-causing chemicals and endocrine disruptors

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Environmental Toxins

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Types of Environmental Toxins

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Heavy metals, Pollution, Particulates

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13
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What naturally occurring elements that have a high atomic weight and density of at least 5 times greater than water?

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Heavy Metals

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14
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Toxicity depends on?

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DRAC - Dose, Route of Exposure, Chemical species, Age

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15
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Sources of Heavy Metals releases?

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MAIDN - Miscellaneous, Agricultural, Industrial, Domestic, Natural

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16
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Type of poisoning due to accumulation of heavy metals, in the soft tissues of the body?

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Heavy Metal Poisoning

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17
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Type of discharge of heavy metals through soil contamination?

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Direct Pollution

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18
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Type of discharge of heavy metals through water and air contamination?

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Indirect Pollution

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19
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Increase of a toxic substance in an organism

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Bioaccumulation

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20
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Increase of toxic substance going along a food chain from low to high level (between trophic levels)

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Biological Magnification or Biomagnification

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21
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What are the three types of pollution?

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Air pollution, Land pollution, Water pollution

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22
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Microscopic pollutants that targets respiratory and circulatory systems

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Air pollution

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23
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Excessive gases that leads to global warming

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Greenhouse gases

24
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Combination of smoke and fog

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Smog

25
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Atmospheric conditions that trap smog and prevent its dispersal

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Thermal inversion (temperature inversion)

26
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The 3 major detrimental effects on water quality and availability

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Humans use excessive water, depleting supplies Building roads/parking lots prevents rainwater from soaking in, causing runoff Human activities pollute water sources

27
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organic pollutants from sewages and industry

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eutrophication

28
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composed of nitrates, phosphate fertilizers, sulfates from detergents

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inorganic pollutants

29
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composed of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), oil & gasoline, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals

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toxic pollutants

30
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contaminates drinking water supplies, very slow exchange of the groundwater pool = “cleans” slowly

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groundwater pollution

31
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type of contaminants that are organic

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common contaminants

32
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Suspected effects of groundwater pollution

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miscarriage, skin rashes, nervous disorders, birth defect

33
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tiny particles found in the air formed because of chemical reactions between pollutants

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particulates

34
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Microorganism that steals space, nutrients, and living tissues from symbiotes

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Diseases

35
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Infectious Disease according to DOH 2019 are?

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Acute Respiratory Infection, Influenza A (H1N1), Bird Flu (Avian Influenza), Chickenpox, Cholera, Dengue, Diarrhea, Ebola, Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

36
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Which places don’t have bacterias?

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Sterilized areas (high temperature and high pressure)

37
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How do Bacteria spread?

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CACID - Contamination, Adherence, Colonization, Invasion, Damage

38
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Antibiotics doesn’t work on?

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Viral diseases

39
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Part of Earth that contains all ecosystems?

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Biosphere

40
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community and its nonliving surroundings?

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ecosystem

41
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populations that live together in a defined area?

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community

42
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group of individuals of the same species that lives in the same geographic area

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population

43
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what is an individual living thing called?

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organism

44
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science of measurement of changes in population size and composition (biotic and abiotic)

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population ecology

45
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number of individuals per unit area or volume

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population density

46
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spacing patterns within a population

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population dispersion or population distribution

47
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type of dispersion that aggregate in patches and influenced by resources availability and behavior

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clumped dispersion

48
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dispersion that individuals are evenly distributed

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uniform distribution

49
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dispersion that is independent of other individuals and occurs in the absence of attraction and repulsion

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random dispersion

50
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study of vital statistics of a population and how they change over time

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demography

51
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type of survivorship with high probability of surviving until adulthood

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type 1

52
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type of survivorship whose chance of survival is independent of each

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type 2

53
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type of survivorship who mostly dies in the early stages of their life

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type 3

54
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maximum rate of growth of a population under ideal conditions

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biotic potential

55
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line that determines whether we are normally populated or overpopulated

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carrying capacity

56
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maintains equilibrium by reminding us that some have to go

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environmental resistance

57
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environmental resistance are:

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PLED - Predation, Limitations, Environmental toxins, Diseases

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