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