Vocab
a set of symptoms, such as headache, fatigue, eye irritation , and dizziness, that may affect workers in modern, airtight office buildings; believed to be caused by indoor pollution
What is Sick Building Syndrome?
The most common unit to measure loudness
What is Decibel?
The study of toxic substances, including their nature, effects, detection, methods of treatment and exposure control
What is Toxicology
Smoking And vaping have this addictive chemical
What is Nicotine
Gas that vehicles emit
What is Carbon Dioxide
The amount of a harmful substance to which a person is exposed; the quantity of medicine that needs to be taken over a period of time
What is Dose
A poison used to destroy pests, such as insects, rodents, or weeds; examples include insecticide, rodenticides and herbicide
What is Pesticides
An organism from which a parasite takes food or shelter
What is Host
Any agent, such as a plasmid or a virus, that can incorporate foreign DNA and transfer that DNA from one organism to another ; an intermediate host that transfers a pathogen or a parasite to another organism
What is Vector
Waste disposal system in the ground
What is landfill
Any of several minerals that form bundles of minute fibers that are heat resistant, flexible and durable
What is Asbestos
The study of the distribution of diseases in populations and the study of factors that influence the occurrence and spread of disease
What is epidomiology
Chemicals used to make building materials such as carpet, cleaning fluids, furnitures , lead paint
what are industrial chemicals
The deadliest waterborne diseases come from drinking or using water polluted with human feces; Vibrio cholerae is the bacteria (pathogen) that causes diarrhea
What is cholera
burning coals and gasoline
what are fossil fuels
Colorless, tasteless, and odorless radioactive gas
What is Radon
Fine particles that are suspended in the atmosphere and that are associated with air pollution
What are particulates
A microorganism, another organism, a virus, or a protein that causes disease; an infectious agent
What is Pathogen
Collects data on how the environment affects human health
oil pumped from the ground
what is petroleum
A graph that shows the relative effect of various does of a drug or chemical on an organism or organism
What is Dose responsive curve
Metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury found in rocks and soil. Can cause nerve damage when ingested beyond their threshold dose
What are Heavy Metals
Caused by parasitic protists and is transmitted by the vector, female Anopheles mosquito which lays the larvae in stagnant freshwater. No effective vaccine, insect repellent sleeping nets and remove stagnant water, fish that eat the mosquito larva
What is malaria
Diseases that cause the body to lose water by diarrhea and vomiting
what is cholera and dysentary
oil deposit that can be extracted
what are oil reserves