Toxicology

Toxicology is the study of what?

• Disease

• poisons

• parasites

• death

In biomagnficiation, organism that are higher in the food chain are at the greatest risk of ingesting more toxins.

• True

• False

A dose is...

• the amount of a harmful substance to which a person is exposed

• damage to the health that results from exposure to a toxin

• study of toxic chemicals and how they effect humans

• a graph that show the dose/ response effect

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NGSS.HS-PS1-5

What type of chemicals disrupt the nervous system?

• carcinogens

• Endocrine disruptors

• neurotoxins

• teratogens

The study of the spread of disease in populations is called

• toxicology

• threshold dose

• biomagnification

• epidemiology

endocrine disruptors are

• chemical that disrupt the nervous system

• chemicals that interfere with normal functions of hormones in an animal's body

• chemicals that interfere with the normal development of embryos or fetuses

• chemicals that interfere with the normal development of embryos or fetuses

Chemicals that interfere with the normal development of embryos or fetuses are called

• teratogen

• carcinogens

• neurotoxins

• endocrine disruptors

Exposure to bleach in large amount is a know to cause cancer in humans. Bleach would be considered a

• endocrine disruptors

• teratogens

• neurotoxin

• carcinogen

This image is showing an increase in toxic chemicals as you move up trophic levels in an ecosystem. This process is called

• epidemology

• toxicology

• biomagnification

• threshold dose

Mrs. Olson and Mr. Roberts are the best environmental science teachers EVER!

• true

• False (you better not pick this one)