Air Quality Basics
What does AQ stand for?
What is Air quality?
Which source of pollution is responsible for a lot of emissions in cities:
A) Trees
B) Cars and trucks
C) Parks
What is cars and trucks?
What are AQ Sensors used for?
What is measuring pollutants in the air?
Everyone deserves clean ______, clean ______, and a healthy environment.
What is Air and Water.
What does the Air Quality Index (AQI) measure?
What is how clean or polluted the air is and its health effects?
Name two major sources of air pollution.
What is ...
What are two benefits of communities collecting their own air quality data?
What is ...
What is environmental racism?
What is when communities of color and low-income communities face higher exposure to pollution and environmental hazards?
Name 3 health effects of poor air quality.
What is ...
Ground-level ozone is:
A) Helpful for breathing
B) A harmful air pollutant
C) A type of AQ Sensor
What is a harmful air pollutant
Why is calibration important?
What is ensuring the sensor gives accurate readings?
What is two ways communities can create environmental change?
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Which pollutant is so small it can enter your lungs and bloodstream?
What is PM2.5
This natural disaster has become more frequent due to climate change and releases large amounts of PM2.5 into the air.
What are wildfires?
What does "real-time data" mean?
What is information that is collected and displayed immediately as conditions change.
A community organizes meetings, collects air quality data, speaks at city council meetings, and pushes for stronger environmental protections. These actions are examples of this important Environmental Justice principle.
What is community advocacy?
This pollutant protects Earth from harmful UV radiation in the upper atmosphere but becomes harmful to human health when found at ground level.
What is ozone?
These facilities often release pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter and are frequently located near low-income communities and communities of color.
What are factories and refineries?
If you could place an AQ sensor anywhere in your community, where would you put it and why?
No wrong answer!
Historically, these discriminatory housing policies contributed to environmental racism by restricting where people of color could live and influencing where polluting industries were built.
What is Redlining