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  • It is an agency from the US whose mission is to protect human and environmental health.
    The EPA
  • A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
    Pesticides
  • It is a type of mud that has toxic chemicals like lead and arsenic, and it is often found close to mining operations.
    Heavy Metal Sludge
  • It is an agency of the UN whose mission is to research and promote health at a global level.
    The WHO agency
  • They are the gas or steam that is produced when the engine of a vehicle is running.
    Exhaust fumes
  • The presence in or introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.
    Air pollution
  • A chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility.
    Fertilizers
  • Supply water to (land or crops) to help growth, typically by means of channels.
    Irrigate
  • A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
    Fossil fuels
  • This event happens when wastewater with human excrement is being transported and it overflows or spills into the environment.
    A sewage spill
  • Is a toxic chemical often found in groundwater sources that are close to mineral deposits.
    Arsenic
  • A cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable.
    Crops
  • It occurs when harmful substances—often chemicals or microorganisms—contaminate a stream, river, lake, ocean, aquifer, or other.
    Water pollution
  • The dependence of two or more people or things on each other.
    Interdependence
  • Is a toxic pollutant emitted by factories into the atmosphere.
    Chloroprene