Cancer may spread to the head and neck from other parts of the body and cause oral pain. With some cancers, pain may be felt in parts of the body not near the cancer. This is called referred pain.
Soil erosion. If you define land pollution as irreversible damage to the land, you have to include soil erosion as a type of pollution too. Many people think soil is soil, always there, never changing, ever ready to grow whatever crops we choose to bury in it.
RECOMMENDED LESSONS: Runoff. Runoff is precipitation that did not get (infiltrated) absorbed into the soil, or did not evaporate, and therefore, made its way from the ground surface into places that water collect. Runoff causes erosion, and also carry chemicals and substances on the ground surface along to the rivers where the water ends up. It can cause water pollution too. Only about 35% of precipitation ends up in the sea or ocean. The other 65% is absorbed into the soil. Some of it too will evaporate.