Chapter 32

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Across
  1. 3. authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources.
  2. 4. the introduction of harmful materials into the environment
  3. 7. the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.
  4. 9. chemical compounds that are used to kill pests, including insects, rodents, fungi and unwanted plants (weeds).
  5. 10. a person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
Down
  1. 1. regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials, such as in nuclear medicine, through licensing, inspection
  2. 2. American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement
  3. 5. Unit 2 reactor on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, near the Pennsylvania capital of Harrisburg. It began at 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
  4. 6. a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.
  5. 8. annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
  6. 10. independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters.