Unit 13: Environmental Hazards and Human Health

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Across
  1. 2. Single-celled organism that can multiply very rapidly; most are harmless, others cause things like strep throat
  2. 3. Organism that lives on or inside another organism and feeds on it.
  3. 5. Chemical that harms a fetus or embryo or causes birth defects.
  4. 7. Process of using statistical methods to estimate how much harm a particular hazard can cause to human health or the environment.
  5. 9. Chemical, type of radiation, or virus that can cause or promote cancer.
Down
  1. 1. Infectious agent that is smaller than bacterium and invades a cell – example: the flu
  2. 3. Disease-causing agent, such as bacterium, virus, or parasite.
  3. 4. Probability of suffering harm from a hazard that can cause injury, disease, death, economic loss, or damage.
  4. 6. Deciding whether and how to reduce a particular risk to a certain level and at what cost.
  5. 8. Toxic agent such as a chemical or form of radiation that causes or increases the frequency of mutations in DNA.