Poison, Venom, Mushrooms
This is the name for toxic substances that are found on the skin or inside the body of an organism
What is poison?
This is the category of pesticides used to kill insects
What are insecticides?
These two elements are what power nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons
What are uranium and plutonium?
This is the most common animal vector for human diseases
What are mosquitoes?
This is the name for a toxic substance delivered via a fang, a barb, or a stinger
What is venom?
This is the category of pesticides used to kill plants
What are herbicides?
This was the site of the worst nuclear accident in history
What is Chernobyl?
This viral disease kills more people per year than any other infectious disease
What is malaria?
This is the name of any toxic substance created by a living organism
What is a toxin?
This pesticide is one of the most dangerous to the environment ever created. It is responsible for the near extinction of bald eagles
What is DDT?
This quality of the Nazis was the main thing that prevented them from developing the nuclear bomb first
What is antisemitism?
These are the disease-causing agents behind things like mad cow disease and encephalopathy
What are prions?
Name any three venomous or poisonous species found in New York
Poison Ivy
Copperheads
Rattlesnakes
Poison Oak
Stinging Nettle
Bees/Wasps/Hornets
This phenomenon describes the process by which humans must use successively higher doses of pesticide to get the same result
What is the pesticide treadmill?
This is the proportion of energy on Earth produced by nuclear reactors
What is 10%?
Bacteria in livestock are developing resistance to this group of chemicals
What are antibiotics?
This is the rhyme used to remember the difference between venomous coral snakes and harmless corn snakes
Red on Yellow, kill a fellow
This was the first pesticide ever used by humans. It was used by the Ancient Sumerians
What is sulphur dust?
This was the site of many nuclear weapons tests that displaced many indigenous islanders
What is Bikini Atoll?
The build up of this substance in the body is what turns yellow fever patients yellow
What is bilirubin?