Pollution sources
What are two man-made sources of air pollution?
What are factories, cars, fossil fuels
The Earth is surrounded by two layers. What are the layers called?
What is ozone?
It is important to monitor air pollution for these reasons.
What is respiratory health?
These letters are what we use to measure air quality.
What is AQI?
List two natural sources of air pollution.
What are wildfires, volcanoes?
The bad ozone layer is also known as this.
What is ground level ozone (O3)?
The effect of good ozone getting thinner could cause what kind of skin problems.
What are burns, skin cancer?
The color that is the best/safest air quality.
What is green?
These are harmful substances found in the air, water or soil.
What are pollutants?
Name 3 negative effects that air pollution can cause to our health.
Lung disease, heart disease, asthma.
Ground level ozone comes from the combination of these factors.
What are car exhaust and factory emissions and sunlight?
This is the worst/unhealthy air quality color.
What is dark red (maroon)?
This is one of the causes of water pollution.
What is pollution from dumping trash in the ocean.
PM 2.5 and PM 10 measure this.
What is the amount of particular matter in the air?
The most important things we can do to reduce air pollution are this.
What are use electric vehicles, carpool, don't use aerosols, conserve energy?
What is another way to describe haze?
What is smog or fog?
This region is where large thick masses of ice melt into the ocean.
What is the Arctic?
The difference between PM 2.5 and PM 10 is this.
What is PM 2.5 are small particles, PM 10 are larger particles that you can see?
This is the cause of how air pollution travels.
What is the wind/jet stream?
The good ozone layer protects us from this.
What is the sun's UV rays?