APES Ch. 16/17: Waste and Human Health Risks

Chemicals, ionizing radiation, and viruses that cause or promote the development of uncontrolable growth

• mutagen
• carcinogen
• cancer
• teratogen

Study of the patterns of disease or other harmful effects from toxic exposure within defined groups of people to find out why some people get sick and some do not

• Toxicology
• pathology
• phrenology
• epidemiology

Chemical or form of radiation that causes inheritable changes in the DNA molecules in the genes found in chromosomes

• teratogen
• mutagen
• carcinogen
• metastasis

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A disease that is not spread from one person to another

• melanoma
• cystic fibrosis
• nontransmissible disease
• multiple sclerosis

Organism that produces disease

• pathogen
• Ebola
• tuberculosis
• maleria

Study of the adverse effects of chemicals on health

• epidemiology
• immunology
• Toxicology
• phrenology

A disease that is caused by living organisms and can spread from one person to another

• Huntingtons disease
• Downs syndrome
• transmissible disease
• sickle cell anemia

Disease in which cells multiply uncontrollably and invade surrounding tissue.

• mutation
• cancer
• infectious disease
• transmissible disease

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Using risk measurement and other information to determine options and make decisions about reducing or eliminating risks

• risk assessment
• risk analysis
• risk communication
• risk management

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

The amount of a potentially harmful substance an individual ingests, inhales, or absorbs through the skin.

• dose
• LD50
• median lethal dose
• dose-response curve