HW2:5329

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1. endocrine disrupter-

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1. http://www.greenfacts.org/endocrine-disruptors/endocrine-disrupter.htm
2. a chemical, either natural or man-made that can interfere with the endocrine system, its hormones or where and how they act.

2. ecotoxicology-

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3. ecological risk assessment-

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1. http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/nrd/era.htm
2. An ERA evaluates the effects living organisms have as a result to human activity and it provides a way to show scientific information relevant to making environmental decisions.

4. bioaccumulation-

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1. http://toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/bioaccumulation.html
2. A term for the accumulation of substances through respiration, food intake, skin contact, or more in an organism or part of it.

5. emerging disease-

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1. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/eid/
2. Increased outbreaks of a known or unknown disease in the past two decades, this is the leading cause of death worldwide because it not only presents new diseases, old ones reappear, and therefore are almost intractable.

6. pollution-

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1. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pollution
2. contaminating the natural environment with unwanted, harmful substances as the result of human activity

7. biological amplification or biological magnification-

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1. http://www.akaction.net/pages/glossary.html
2. Chemicals such as DDTs and PCBs that become more concentrated as they move through the food chain.

8. carcinogen-

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9. environmental stressor-

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1. http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_29_109.html
2. Anything in the physical world that stresses you, such as pollution.

10. red tides-

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1. http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookglossR.html
2. Population explosion of certain types of dinoflagellates that have red structures inside causing the water to appear red.