Answers:HW2

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PHS 101	Due Feb. 1, 2006
Homework #02

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Answers to homework #2 will appear here after ~5pm on Friday, Feb. 3.

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This is not a comprehensive list of answers for homework #2. However, this outlines a few of the possible correct answers for each key phrase. For example, correct answers have come from news articles, e-dictionaries, research institutions--foundations and/or universities, and gov sites, to name a few. In other words, you may have a correct answer that does not appear here.

Contents 1 endocrine disrupter 2 ecotoxicology 3 ecological risk assessment 4 bioaccumulation 5 emerging disease 6 pollution 7 biological amplification or biological magnification 8 carcinogen 9 environmental stressor 10 red tides

endocrine disrupter

• http://www.greenfacts.org/endocrine-disruptors/endocrine-disrupter.htm
• http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/endocrine/index_en.htm
• http://iccvam.niehs.nih.gov/methods/endocrine.htm
• http://edkb.fda.gov/endodisrupt.html

ecotoxicology

• http://www.ipmrc.com/expert/ecotox/index.shtml
• http://www.ecotoxicology.org/
• http://www.epa.gov/ecotox/
• http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/biol106h/L37/ecotox.html

ecological risk assessment

• http://www.aehs.com/journals/humanandecojournal/
• http://www.ead.anl.gov/project/dsp_fsdetail.cfm?id=8

bioaccumulation

• http://extoxnet.orst.edu/tibs/bioaccum.htm
• http://toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/bioaccumulation.html
• http://www.esd.ornl.gov/BMAP/bioaccum.html

emerging disease

• http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm
• http://toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/bioaccumulation.html
• http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/discovery/lyme.htm
• http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdiseases

pollution

• http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/pollution-main.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution
• http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/pollution-main.html
• http://www.epa.state.il.us/about/history.html

biological amplification or biological magnification

• http://www.webref.org/chemistry/b/biological_amplification.htm
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2766289&dopt=Abstract
• http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/102/2bioma95.html

carcinogen

• http://www.breastcancer.org/dictionary/carcinogen_t.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution
• http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/carcinogens.html

environmental stressor

• http://www.dnr.state.ga.us/environ/plans_files/plans/savannah-pdf/sav4.pdf
• http://www.dnr.state.ga.us/dnr/environ/plans_files/plans/flint-pdf/flint4.pdf
• http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/def/cwa_cause_class_def.html
• http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/research/Social%20Environment/notebook/stress%20survey.htm
• http://www.hort.purdue.edu/cfpesp/

red tides

• http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/whathabs/whathabs.html
• http://research.myfwc.com/features/view_article.asp?id=9670
• http://museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/redtide.htm
• http://www.start1.com/