Environmental Contaminants

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Across
  1. 3. Solids, liquids or gases that are used in manufacturing, mining, construction, agriculture and business applications
  2. 8. pollutants that may harm humans or other living things when released into the environment
  3. 10. Found in cigarettes
  4. 11. Industrial waste from processes like smelting release these
  5. 13. Any sound that is harmful or unwanted
  6. 15. Smells of rotten eggs and is found in acid rain
Down
  1. 1. Long term epxosure greatly increases a person's change of developing skin cancer
  2. 2. How sound is measured
  3. 4. Often called "the silent killer"
  4. 5. Irritates the respiratory system and can cause several health affects
  5. 6. Contaminants that are alive such as some fungi, bacteria and some single celled organisms
  6. 7. These dangerous chemicals evaporate quickly and can harm human lungs
  7. 9. Vegetable that can be planted to intentionally absorb soil contaminants
  8. 12. Make something impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something harmful
  9. 14. A waste material produced by human activity that causes harm in the ecosystem