Air Pollution
The most common air pollutant
What is carbon monoxide?
The top source of air pollutants
What are Household Combustion Devices?
Vehicles are required to have it since 1974
What is catalytic converters?
Any form of precipitation with acidic components.
What is acid rain?
Gases in the earth's atmosphere that trap heat
What are Greenhouse gases?
Harmful materials into the environment
What makes a pollutant?
Name a Renewable, non-pollution emitting energy source
What is Solar, Wind, and Hydro
As pH decreases (more acidic) outside the optimal range for a species, pop. declines
What is Ph tolerance?
Large column/tube/pipe filled with chemicals that absorb or neutralize oxides (NOx, SOx, VOCs) from exhaust streams (emissions)
What are Dry Scrubers?
Noise at a great enough volume to cause psychological stress
What is Noise Pollution?
An act passed in 1964 to regulate air pollutants
What is the Clean Air Act?
Detiriates limestone and other man-made structures such as concrete and tombstones
What are the effects of Acid Rain?
Name 3 of the 6 basic Air pollutants
What are So2 (Sulfur Dioxide), NOx (Nitrogen Oxides[NO & NO2]), CO (Carbon Monoxide), PM (Particulate Matter), O3 (Ozone [tropospheric]), Pb (Lead)
The noise from ship engines, military sonar, and seismic air blasts from oil and gas surveying ships
What is Aquatic noise
A filterless device that removes fine particles
What is an electrostatic precipitator?
The two major sources of acid rain.
What are SO2 (Sulfur Dioxide) and NOx (Nitrogen Oxide)?
A common air pollutant that causes lung damage and crop and forest damage
What is Ozone?
A harmful pollutant that occurs naturally in the earth's crust
What is lead?
Companies receive these for reducing emissions
What are pollution credits?
The person who discovered Acid Rain
Who is Robert Angus Smith?