ES Lesson 9.1 Vocabulary

a disease-causing organism

• hazard

• environmental health

• pathogen

• dose

the degree to which a substance is harmful to an organism

• toxicity

• epidemiology

• toxicology

• dose-response relationship

the probability that a hazard will cause a harmful response

• response

• risk

• toxicity

• risk assessment

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

• environmental science

• environmental health

• does-response relationship

• epidemiology

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

the level of exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance

• response

• pathogen

• risk

• dose

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

the study of how poisons affect an organism's health

• toxicology

• toxicity

• risk

• risk assessment

something that threatens or is harmful to human health

• pathogen

• risk

• hazard

• response

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

the study of disease in human populations

• toxicology

• toxicity

• environmental health

• epidemiology

the effect on an organism at different levels of exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance

• dose-response relationship

• pathogen

• risk assessment

• environmental health

the effect on an organism of an exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance

• toxicity

• pathogen

• response

• dose

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2