Volume 1: Units 1, and 2 Flashcards
Who establishes the mission of the Air Force Medical Service?
Air Force Surgeon General
Ensuring medically fit forces, providing expeditionary medics, and improving the health of all we serve to meet our nation’s needs is best described as a part of the Air Force Medical Service’s _______
Mission
The prevent illness and injury effect can best be described as the ______
Health service support in garrison or deployed environments
Optimizing force health and warfighter performance is best described as a part of the Aerospace & Operational Medicine Enterprise’s ______
Vision
All aerospace medicine squadron (AMDS) members working together to accomplish the mission best describes
The team Aerospace Concept
Which Air Force Medical Service effects include identifying, assessing and controlling health hazards?
Prevent illness and injury
The team aerospace concept is best illustrated by members of _____
Public Health and BE working together to prevent and manage occupational injuries
Which of the following examples best illustrates the team aerospace concept?
PH and BE team members working together to investigate a possible waterborne illness
Providing health risk assessment capability to enhance a commander’s decision making is part of the bioenvironmental engineering (BE)
Mission
Which example best describes the bioenvironmental engineering (BE) primary capability of conducting predictive exposure assessments?
Use occupational and environmental health data for predicting potential exposures
Which agencies would bioenvironmental engineering interface with to correct a drinking water standard violation?
CE and EPA
Which agency would you consult for assistance when interpreting an Air Force Medical Support Agency policy?
The major command’s BE
If your responsibilities at a deployed location include performing vulnerability assessments, health hazard surveillance, and drinking water sampling, then you are a member of the ______
Medical Global Reach Laydown Team
If you are deployed for the purpose of identifying the radiological environment and recommend protective actions to ensure the health and safety of personnel and the surrounding community following radiological incidents, then you are a member of which unit type code?
AFRAT
What change in the physical state occurs when sufficient heat is applied to a liquid?
Turns to gas
Which forum meets once per month to review, discuss, and approve issues such as industrial hygiene recommendations?
Occupational and environmental health working group
If you are deployed following a radiological incident and asked to identify the radiological environment along with providing recommendations for protective actions then, you are a member of the ______
Air Force Radiation Assessment Team (AFRAT)
Which of the physical states of matter lacks both volume and shape?
Gas Only
If matter is uniform in composition and properties, then it is considered to be _____
homogenous
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom is equal to the _____
Atomic Number
Which example best describes a solution?
Ethyl alcohol dissolved in water
The mass number of an atom is equal to the sum of the number of ______
Protons and Neutrons
Due to their high reactivity, what commonly combines with organic compounds to form dangerous chemicals that can be toxic to humans?
Halogens
Where are the noble gases located within the periodic table?
Far right column
Elements form compounds in an attempt to _______
Become more stable
A cation has a positive charge because the atom has _______
More protons than electrons
It is important to understand the chemical relationships that place compounds into distinct groups so you can more easily determine the ______
Hazards of the compounds
What is the molecular weight of a substance based on one mole?
6.022 x10^23
If 50 grams of sodium chloride dissolves in enough water to make 500 grams of solution, what is the percent by mass?
10 percent
A solution with a potential of hydrogen (pH) of 3 is considered ______
Acidic
What type of solution contains large amounts of both a weak acid and its conjugate base so that it resists change in its potential of hydrogen (pH) level?
Buffer
Gay-Lussac’s law states that at a constant volume the pressure of a fixed mass of a given gas is directly proportional to the temperature (in Kelvin); therefore, as pressure ________
Increases, temperature increases
