Ch. 3 Word Search “Environmental Health”

1. polluted water that contains human waste, garbage, and other household wastewater sewage

2. the solid particles (soil, construction dust, tire rubber, asbestos from brake linings, diesel and motor vehicle exhaust) present in the air particulate matter

3. an illness caused by several types of bacteria that can cause bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps, rectal pain, fever, seizures, and kidney failure in humans dysentery

4. not allowing naturally occurring wildfires to take place fire suppression

5. an often fatal parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes causing flu-like symptoms in humans malaria

6. CO, a colorless, odorless gas that forms from the incomplete burning of fuels carbon monoxide

7. substances that cause severe harm to organisms exposed to them toxic substances

8. NO 2, formed when fuels burn and is found in the pollutant smog nitrogen dioxide

9. the bacterium that causes cholera Vibrio cholerae

10. environmental contamination with man-made waste pollution

11. a disruption in the relationship between Earth’s hydrosphere and atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can result in floods, droughts, hurricanes, and other types of severe weather El Niño

12. wastewater from factories and refineries that is released directly into urban water supplies effluent

13. very tiny pathogens, or organisms such as protests, bacteria, or viruses, that cause disease microbes

14. gastrointestinal disease that is transmitted from the environment to humans through inadequately or improperly treated drinking water cryptosporiodosis

15. unplanned development that results in more and more suburbs sprawl

16. SO 2, a pollutant that forms when coal containing pyrite is burned sulfur dioxide

17. reaction by the body to a foreign substance that, in similar amounts and circumstances, is harmless to most other people allergy

18. similar to cryptosporidiosis in its infection methods, typical symptoms, method of transmission, and prevention giardiasis

19. disorder of the lungs in which airways tend to constrict, resulting in episodes of breathlessness, wheezing, coughing, and tightness of the chest asthma

20. outbreak of a disease that affects an exceptionally high portion of a population and occurs over a very large geographic area pandemic

21. scientific studies of interactions between organisms and their environments ecology

22. contaminants that are discharged or emitted from an identifiable source point source (PS) pollutants

23. pollutants that are carried far from their sources by rain and melting snow and are eventually deposited in soil or into freshwater and groundwater systems nonpoint source (NPS) pollutants

24. variety of living organisms on Earth biodiversity

25. O 3, a form of oxygen that protects Earth’s inhabitants from harmful solar radiation ozone

26. biological approach to monitoring an ecosystem’s health biomonitoring