Environmental Health vocab

disease causing agent

• epidemiology

• toxicology

• pathogen

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

determines how harmful a substance is to an organism

• pathogen

• toxicity

• toxicology

• epidemiology

factors that threaten or are harmful to human health

• risk

• hazard

• risk assessment

• dose

the amount of a substance an organism is exposed to

• response

• hazard

• toxicity

• dose

the study of disease in human populations

• epidemiology

• pathogenology

• toxicology

• biology

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

the effect an organism shows as a result of exposure

• dose

• response

• toxic

• risk assessment

the study of how environmental factors affect human health and quality of life

• environmental health

• toxicology

• epidemiology

• biology

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

the study of how poisonous substances affect an organism’s health

• environmental health

• toxicology

• epidemiology

• biology

matter or energy released into the environment, causing negative effects that impact people, wildlife, and the environment

• radon

• pollution

• pathogen

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

colorless, odorless, highly toxic radioactive gas

• radon

• pollution

• asbestos

• volcanic ash