Effects on Humans
Pesticides are dangerous and can enter the body through the mouth, skin, or these organs.
What are Lungs?
This bug pollinates one in every 3 bites of food.
What are Bees?
In the 1960s, people started worrying that pesticides were hurting this.
What is the environment?
About this percent of farms use pesticides.
What is most or 80–90%?
This kind of farming doesn’t use pesticides.
What is organic farming?
Children are more affected by pesticides because their bodies are still doing this.
What is growing or developing?
Pesticides make it hard for bees to find their ___.
What is hive?
Scientists made modern pesticides in labs using these
What are chemicals?
About this percent of fruits and veggies have some pesticide on them.
What is around 70–80%?
Ladybugs help farmers by eating these
What are pests/bugs?
People who work with pesticides every day are more likely to have this problem.
What is health trouble or illness?
Bees pick up pesticides when they land on this.
What are Flowers?
People began using pesticides to grow more food after this big event.
What is World War II?
Bees around the world have pesticide traces in this percent of honey.
What is about 75%?
Farmers can plant this kind of crop to keep bugs away naturally.
What are pest-resistant plants?
Pesticides can make it harder for people to have healthy ___.
What are babies or children?
If bees die, we lose a lot of this.
What is Food?
Before pesticides, farmers used these animals to eat pests.
What are birds or insects?
Farming uses about this percent of all pesticides made.
What is 85%
This group helps make rules about pesticide safety.
What is the World Health Organization?
The diseases that are caused by pesticides entering the brain.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
The name for bees disappearing from hives is called this.
What is Colony Collapse Disorder?
The first pesticides came from this kind of natural source.
What are plants or minerals?
This percent of U.S. homes use bug sprays or weed killers.
What is 75%?
Using fewer chemicals and more natural ways to grow food is called this.
What is sustainable farming?