AP Environmental Science / Unit 8: Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution
8.14 Pollution and Human Health
Notes
Human health effects can be hard to link to one pollutant because of many exposures.
- Examples: lead (neurological damage), mercury (nervous system), asthma from smog, dysentery from untreated water, mesothelioma from asbestos.
Practice
Lead exposure in children mainly harms the:
Neurotoxin.
Asbestos exposure is linked to:
Fibers damage lungs.
Linking a disease to one pollutant is difficult because:
Many variables.
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