Cemeteries and Cremation Compendium

Visible emission (opacity) is rated on a scale from?

0% to 100%

Match the following "Don't Say" words with their proper "Do Say" terms? 1 - ashes a - inscribe 2 - engrave b - marker 3 - headstone c - cremated remains

1 - c 2 - a 3 - b

Which of the following are types of cemeteries? 1 - Church yard 2 - Grocery markets 3 - Family 4 - Veterans 5 - Memorial Parks

1, 3, 4, and 5 church yard family veterans memorial parks

Which of the following might fall under the jurisdiction or use of a cemetery? 1 - land dedicated, reserved or used for interment 2 - trees, shrubs and other vegetation grown on the property 3 - graves, mausoleums, crypts, columbaria, niches, or other interment spaces 4 - memorial works of art 5 - roadways, walkways and ponds or lagoons (water features) 6 - equipment, vehicles and facilities incident to the operation there of

1, 3, and 5 only 1 - land dedicated, reserved or used for interment 3 - graves, mausoleums, crypts, columbaria, niches, or other interment spaces 5 - roadways, walkways and ponds or lagoons (water features)

In most states, regardless of the age of the equipment, there is a ___ second retention time requirement?

1/2

The first recorded pre planned cremation in the US took place in Charleston, South Carolina in?

1783

Many adherents to the Roman Catholic faith are not aware of the Vatican's acceptance of cremation in?

1963

Which of the following is used to refer to cremated human remains after they are pulverized and cleaned, leaving primarily small bone fragments as small as particles of sand or smaller? 1 - fly ash 2 - processed cremated human remains 3 - ashes 4 - bone fragments

2 - processed cremated human remains

In many states, the permit states that the opacity shall not exceed ____% except for ____ seconds in any ___ minute period?

20; 30; 60 20% opacity 30 seconds 60 minute

Of those listed below, which are the most easily discernible by a crematory operator with regard to determining the sequence of cases for that day? 1 - race and religion 2 - container type and religion of the deceased 3 - amount of body fat and container type 4 - the bone structure and hair color of the deceased

3 - amount of body fat and container type

A pre placed enclosed chamber, which is usually constructed of reinforced concrete, poured in place or precast unit installed in quantity, either side by side or multiple depth, and covered by earth or sod? 1- lawn crypt 2 - garden crypt 3 - both 1 and 2 4 - All of these

3 - both 1 and 2 Lawn crypt Garden crypt

Turbulence in the exhaust flow are caused by the presences of physical obstacles such as? 1 - drop arches 2 - curtain walls 3 - both 1 and 2 4 - None of these

3 - both 1 and 2 drop arches curtain walls

How large would a grave need to be to accommodate a standard burial vault?

3' X 8'

Of those listed below, which are types of crypts? 1 - Mausoleum 2 - Garden 3 - Lawn 4 - All of these

4 - All of these Mausoleum Garden Lawn

Interments a generic term to embrace all forms of disposition of human remains to include? 1 - burial 2 - entombment 3 - inurnment 4 - all of these

4 - all of these

A vertical passage for conduction products of combustion to the atmosphere? 1 - stack 2 - chimney 3 - flue 4 - all of these

4 - all of these stack chimney flue

Cremation is the process of reducing human remains to its basic elements in the form of bone fragments through the use of? 1 - flame 2 - heat 3 - vaporization 4 - all of these are needed

4 - all of these are needed flame heat vaporization

Cremation containers or caskets are made up of ___% combustible solids, ____% moisture, and _____% non-combustible solids and are classified as Type ____ waste?

85; 10; 5; 0 85% combustible solid 10% moisture 5% non-combustible solids Type 0 waste

Human remains are made up of ____% moisture, ____% combustible solids, and ____% non-combustible solids and are classified as Type ____ waste?

85; 10; 5; 4 85% moisture 10% combustible solids 5% non combustible solids Type 4 waste

A ceremonial construction made of wood and fire, designed to reduce a deceased human body to ashes?

A pyre

Any refractory construction intended to change direction of flow or velocity of the products of combustion?

Baffle

The quantity of heat required to rise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit while water is in the liquid state?

British Thermal Unit (BTU)

Term often used by Native Americans to refer to their places of burial?

Burial ground

In cremation, the _______ supplies heat to raise the temperature of the cremation chamber to the point where combustion of the human remains and container is possible?

Burner

The amount of waste incinerated, usually expressed in pounds per hour, with the characteristics or type of waste stipulated?

Capacity

Human made subterranean or hillside passageways for religious practice. Any chamber used as a burial place. Most commonly associated with the Roman Empire?

Catacombs

All property for earth burial?

Cemetery

The State, in its exercise of Police Power, would create one of these to regulate the creation of cemeteries by providing for their establishment and discontinuance as well as to monitor their use?

Cemetery authority

The everyday care and operation of the cemetery?

Cemetery management

The artificial grass, chairs, tent and casket lowering devises are generally referred to as?

Cemetery set up

Literally "an empty tomb". A monument erected in honor for a deceased who is interred elsewhere?

Cenotaph

This type of cemetery originated in Europe where it was thought that the closer to the place of worship a person was the greater their chance of going to heaven?

Church yard

A building specifically designed with niches for the disposition of cremated remains?

Columbarium

Rural, roadside cemeteries, many with homemade grave markers?

Country

Proper term for the remnants of the human body that remain following the cremation?

Cremated remains

A heating process that reduces human remains to bone fragments by combustion and evaporation in the presences of an open flame?

Cremation

A space of sufficient size in a building or land area used or intended to be used of the entombment of human remains?

Crypt

Any Neolithic monument consisting of a large, flat stone supported by two or more rocks (like a table)?

Dolmen

Any vertical refractory wall supported by arch construction which serves to deflect gasses in a downward direction (sometimes referred to as a curtain wall)?

Drop arch

The agency of the United States government responsible for the protection of air and environmental quality is referred to by the acronym?

EPA

The first of this type was in Mt Auburn, Mass. in 1830. During the Victorian era, cemeteries were used as parks for walks and picnics?

Elite Garden Cemetery

A short text honoring a deceased which is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque?

Epitaph

In a hillside cemetery, where the ground is on a steep slop where the grave is located, it may be necessary for the funeral director to _______ in order to keep the lowering devise level over the grave?

Erect a scaffolding

Private cemeteries located on private family owned homesteads?

Family

Suspended ash particles, charred paper, dust, soot or other partially incinerated matter, carried in the products of combustion(often referred to as particulate matter or particulates)?

Fly ash

A stone marker, with or without an inscription used to mark the foot of the grave?

Footstone

A space of land in a cemetery used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains?

Grave

A stone with an inscription used to mark the graves. May be as simple as the name and date -- John Doe 1927-1214?

Gravestone

The memorial stone marking the head of the grave?

Headstone

A solid surface upon which material with high moisture content, or liquids or waste material for burning or drying are placed?

Hearth

The three elements required for combustion to take place?

Heat, fuel and oxygen

A designated area for the retention of human remains while awaiting the cremation processes?

Holding facility

Carbon monoxide is the result of?

Incomplete combustion

To bury or put a dead body into a grave?

Inter

The burial, entombment, or inurnment of human remains?

Interment

With the exception of ______ and _______, most major religions readily accept cremation?

Islam Orthodox Judaism

A grave, crypt or niche?

Lot

The person or persons to whom the cemetery authority has conveyed a right of interment through original purchase, by transfer from original purchaser, or who hold such right by inheritance?

Lot holder

Named for the King of Caria, whose wife, Artemisia, built one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. A chamber or structure used, or intended to be used, for entombment. A building that houses crypts for burial. A community form of this building is for many families and a private one is generally sold for the use for a single family?

Mausoleum

The modern day mausoleum is named in memory of ______ who died in 325 BC, and the monument built as his memorial at Halicarnassus was included among the seven wonders of the ancient world?

Mausolus

A "big rock". The most famous of these are not sepulchral but things or places like Stonehenge?

Megalith

The device used to identify the place of interment and whose purpose is to commemorate a family or an individual and includes such terms as monument, marker, tombstone, tablet, shutter, headstone, footstone, or niche plate?

Memorial

The physical identification of a space where one, several or a multitude of people died in a common occurrence. The deceased may or may not be interred at that place?

Memorial cenotaph

A cemetery which has adopted a park like style and abolished the use of upright memorials?

Memorial park

A ceremony commemoration for the deceased with out the remains present?

Memorial service

An upright memorial, including what used to be called a tombstone, also includes large structures like obelisks, usually made of granite, marble or common stone?

Monument

A space in a columbarium, mausoleum or other structure, used or intended to be used for the inurnment of cremated human remains?

Niche

Though the name is derived from the Greek, meaning "a small spit", they are Egyptian. These are the physical representation of rays from the sun streaming to the earth?

Obelisk

A "bone pit"?

Ossuary

A container that is designed for placement in the grave space around the casket, including, but not limited to, containers commonly known as burial vaults, grave boxes, and grave liners?

Outer burial containers

Fear of tombstones?

Placophobia

Hydrogen chloride is produced in the cremation process when ____ containing chlorine are cremated?

Plastics

A group of two or more adjoining graves, crypts, or niches owned by the same lot holder?

Plat or plot

The person or persons to whom the cemetery authority has conveyed a right of interment in a number of adjacent cemetery lots?

Plot holder

Originally, a cemetery for the victims of great battles?

Polyandrium

A cemetery for paupers?

Potter's field

Generally, State and County owned and operated for the burial of the indigent or unclaimed?

Potter's field

Any air, controlled with respect to quantity and location, forced or induced, supplied through or adjacent to the fuel bed in a crematory retort?

Primary air

A structure whose shape is geometric where the outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top?

Pyramid

The term for the special brick that is used to line the firebox or primary chamber of the crematory retort?

Refractory brick

A container for the preservation of relics of a saint?

Reliquary

In most states with cremation laws, the ____ is responsible for the crematory complying with the laws, rules and regulations of that state?

Responsible cremationist

The right to inter human remains in a designated lot as provided in the conveyance given to the original purchaser, or his designated successor(s)?

Right of Interment

The word comes from the Greek meaning "flesh eater". It has come to mean any large burial receptacle?

Sarcophagus

From the Latin "sepulcrum" which meant only " a burial place"?

Sepulchre

Some modern lowering devises are equipped with telescoping legs to accommodate _____ at the location of the grave?

Sloping ground or hillsides

Historians generally agree that the idea of cremation most likely had its roots in the early?

Stone age

One who loves cemeteries and funerals?

Taphophile

The retention time is?

The amount of time the products of combustion should be held in the retort

The ability of the operator to evaluate the materials to be cremated (casket, container and human remains) is?

The first step in controlling visible emissions

The Greeks called the swollen ground or mound which marked gravesites a tumulus. Today, the word is used chiefly to refer to those burial places which are above ground?

Tomb

_______ is the mixing of gases in the cremator's exhaust flow?

Turbulence

These are relatively small cemeteries with rows of headstones and no resemblance to a park. Usually in larger cities up until the late 1950's?

Urban cemeteries

A or an _____ is a receptacle into which processed cremated remains are placed?

Urn

In the middle of the 17th century, Sir Thomas Browne wrote the earliest known essay in defense of _______ . It stressed the advantages of this form of burial?

Urn burial

Underground receptacles for caskets?

Vaults

A cemetery created by an act of congress for the burial of those that served in the military?

Veterans cemetery

Meaning: Burial alive?

Vivisepulture

The practice of watching over the body by candlelight the night before the funeral?

Wake

A legal document which allows its creator a limited afterlife during which it may choose to placate, amuse, gratify, or anger the survivors. Generally, used for the disposition of any earthly possessions?

Will