Chapter 9 Vocabulary - Page 256-26

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Across
  1. 1. Something that threatens or is harmful to human health.
  2. 3. The probability that a hazard will cause a harmful response.
  3. 4. _________ Health is the study of how environmental factors affect human health and quality of life.
  4. 6. An ________ disease is caused by a pathogen.
  5. 9. A dose-response _________ is the effect on an organism at different levels of exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance.
  6. 11. An __________ disease is a disease that is appearing in the human population for the first time or that has existed for a while, but is spreading rapidly.
Down
  1. 2. A risk ________ is the process of measuring risk.
  2. 3. The effect on an organism of exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance.
  3. 4. The study of disease in human populations.
  4. 5. The study of how poisons affect an organism’s health.
  5. 7. A disease-causing organism.
  6. 8. The level of exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance.
  7. 10. The degree to which a substance is harmful to an organism.