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Environment
An Environment crisis
| Questions | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | The study of the relationships between living things and their environment |
| Pesticides | The chemical uses to kill insects on plants |
| Earth day | A day we celebrate earth |
| Love canal | A housing development that noticed their community had a high rate of certain serious health problems |
| Three mile island | Nuclear facility outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Bhopal | Chemical plant that released deadly toxic fumes into the air |
| Chernobyl | an explosion at a nuclear plant at Chernobyl released radioactive wast that killed a lot of people and spread around the globe and had long-lasting environmental consequences |
| Prince William sound | Oil tanker spilled more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into the water. The spill threatened sea animals their. |
| Multilateral environment agreement ( MEA ) | Or pacts among nations to protect the environment |
| Kyoto Accord | is an international treaty whereby countries agree to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases they emit if their neighbours do likewise. |