APES- Chapter #10: Environmental Health, Pollution and Toxicology Name: __________________________________________________ Learning Objectives: Serious environmental health problems and diseases may arise from toxic elements in water, air, soil, and even the rocks on which we build our homes. After reading this chapter, you should understand: ? How the terms toxic, pollution, contamination, carcinogen, synergism, and biomagnifications are used in environmental health ? What the classification and characteristics are of major groups of pollutants of environmental toxicology ? Why there is controversy and concern about synthetic organic compounds such as dioxin ? Whether we should be concerned about exposure to human-produced electromagnetic fields ?