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Environmental Crisis
Damian Thompson standard 7-7 indicator 3
Terms to know and places to go | Answers and definition |
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Ecology | The study of the relationship between living things and their environment |
Pesticides | The chemicals used to kill insects on plants |
Earth Day | A celebration for Earth |
Multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) | Pacts among nations to protect the environment |
Kyoto Accord | One of the most talked-about MEA's in recent years grew out of a conference held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. |
Love Canal | In the 1970's, people living in New York housing department named Love Canal noticed that their community had a high rate of certain serious health problems. |
Three Mile Island | On March 28, one of the reactors at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania overheated when its cooling system failed |
Bhopal | A major ecological disaster occurred at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India . |
Chernobyl | In the mid- 1980's, the Soviet Union was the site of the worst nuclear accident thus far. |
Price William Sound | A fishing industry |