Chernobyl vocabulary

1. things that happen because of something else that happened earlier
4. mental or having to do with the mind and feelings
6. caused a change in or influenced
7. problems that are present at the time of a baby's birth
10. the act of moving away from one place to live in a new place
12. able to be explained as the result of
13. occurrences or examples
14. the radiation, or energy, given off when an atom's nucleus breaks up
16. all the money that a nation's government owes in payment for money it has borrowed
18. births that come too early in a pregnancy, before the baby has developed enough to survive
20. adjusted, varied, or changed
21. devices that are used to produce a nuclear chain reaction, thereby creating energy and radioactive substances
22. the pieces of our DNA that carry instructions for making different body parts
23. things that happen because something else happened
25. having to do with the environment; the environment is the outside and all that lives there
28. periods of about 20 to 30 years and s the average time from birth until a person has children

2. a building where electrical power is produced using the energy from atoms and supply electricity to many places in the world
3. the people who work for a person or a company and are paid for their work
5. all the businesses that provide related services or products
8. told or shared information and ideas
9. dirty or infected from having been mixed with something harmful
11. births of babies that have already died, especially babies that were fully developed by the time of birth
13. at first
15. a group of body parts that protect the body from disease and illness by destroying harmful substances
17. decreased or diminished
19. a chemical used in some medicines that helps the thyroid to work properly
24. causing disagreements or debates because of opposing viewpoints
26. diseases in which cells in one part of the body grow out of control and spread to other parts of the body
27. having to do with money, business, and trade