Vocabulary
State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
What is health?
Agency that monitors and regulates 275 substances
What is the US Environmental and Protection Agency?
Focuses on external factors that cause disease, including elements of the natural, social, cultural, and technological world
What is environmental health?
Compounds that move through water and do so, rapidly and widely because water is everywhere.
What are water-soluble compounds?
What is LD50?
Abnormal change in the body's condition that impairs physical or psychological functions
What is disease?
This neurotoxin kills nerve cells and can cause neurological damage
What is lead and mercury?
Once an immediate death sentence, this disease is now treatable and individuals can average 24 years after diagnosis.
What is AIDs?
The methods toxic substances enter our bodies.
What are air pollution and skin contact?
Protein found in castor bean seeds and highly toxic
What is ricin?
Conditions that happen over long period of time
What is chronic?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an example of this.
What is teratogen?
Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged in health revolution for children due to these two reasons.
Political instability and poverty.
Town in which water was contaminated by lead, leading to reduced IQ in adolescents and developmental delays.
What is Flint, Michigan?
Lifestyle choices that contribute to developing cancer.
Smoking, sunbathing, alcohol
Substances that activate the immune system
What are allergens?
The second leading cause of death in the US as of 2015
What is cancer?
Biggest pandemic in recent memory other than COVID-19
What is the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918?
A food in which toxic substances are ingested at minimum levels.
What are apples and coffee?
Recognized as foreign by white blood cells and stimulate the product of specific antibodies
What are antigens?
Symptoms caused by poorly vented indoor air contaminated by mold spores, carbon monoxide, etc.
What is sick-building syndrome?
The percentage of all US adults that are now overweight.
What is 60%?
Hemorrhagic fever caused by filovirus
What is Ebola?
Pesticide that nearly wiped out a number of fish-eating bird species in the 1960s
What is Pesticide DDT?
Caused dramatic loss or even extinction of frog and toad species throughout the world
What is chytrid fungus?