Population Week 3

The process of making an area more urban which means increasing the density of people per unit per area of land

Areas that surround metropolitan centers

An infiltration of salt water in an area where groundwater pressure has been reduced as a result of a cone of depression from extensive pumping of wells

Pavement or other surfaces that do not allow water penetration

Urbanized areas that spread into rural areas

A lack of support for and deterioration of urban communities

Runoff, water that does not evapotranspire or infiltrate the soul, that occurs in an urban area

A study that monitors people who have been exposed to an environmental hazard, such as a harmful chemical, at some time in the past

A study that monitors people who might become exposed to an environmental hazard, such as a harmful chemical, at some time in the future

Any impaired function of the body with a characteristic set of symptoms

A disease caused by a pathogen

A disease that rapidly impairs the functioning of a person’s body

A disease that slowly impairs the functioning of a person’s body

A situation in which a pathogen causes a rapid increase in disease

An epidemic that occurs over a large geographic region, such as an entire continent

An infection of the intestines that causes diarrhea, which results in dehydration and can cause death

An infectious disease caused by a bacterium that is carried by fleas

An infectious disease caused by one of several species of protists in the genus Plasmodium

A highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily infects the lungs

An infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

A type of virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiceny Syndrome (AIDS)

An infectious disease with high death rates, caused by several species of Ebola viruses

A disease in which prions mutate into deadly pathogens and slowly damage a cow’s nervous systems

A small, beneficial protein that occasionally mutates into a pathogen