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- All the living organisms (plants, animals, and microorganisms) that live in a particular area.
- The total of all the relationships that bear on how an organism copes with the biotic and abiotic factors it faces.
- anything that can cause injury, disease, or death to humans
- examples of this type of hazard include earthquakes or tornados
- putting policies and regulations in place to prevent people from being at risk of a hazard
- looks at the expenses and good things that will come out of a proposed law or regulation
- a way of enforcing a law that uses monetary enticements
- part of a policy's life cycle when a problem is monitored and the law is upheld
- part of a policy's life cycle when a law is passed and put into action
- The study of all processes influencing the distribution and abundance of organisms and the interactions between living things and their environment.
- a measurement of how harmful a chemical is
- the combination of a hazard and how vulnerable you are to it
- an illness where the cause transfers from animals to humans
- number of cases of an illness or disease in a population
- an organism that has no nucleus (or something simpler than that) that can cause disease
- chemicals that cause birth defects by interfering with the development of the baby in the womb
- an organism that has a nucleus that can cause a disease
- where 1 person or a small group makes the economic decisions for the whole country
- an item you can touch and transfer to someone else
- wrote about the effects of DDT on animals and humans and is known for sparking the environmental movement