Atmosphere
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
Warm air holds __________ water vapor than cooler air.
What is more than?
Mining in which the overlying rock and soil is removed to access the coal.
What is strip mining?
All of the following are benefits of using fossil fuels EXCEPT
What is replenishes and can renew storages quickly?
Global warming refers specifically to an increase in
Earth's average temperature.
The result of no greenhouse effect on the Earth.
What would cause the Earth to be too cold to inhabit?
The primary human caused source of air pollution.
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
Energy that is stored and of position.
What is potential energy?
A benefit of using fossil fuels.
What is easy to transport or relatively cheap?
The amount of carbon dioxide emissions for which an individual or group is responsible for
What is a carbon footprint?
Photochemical Smog is
a primary pollutant
made naturally
Mostly formed away from cities
a secondary pollutant
A secondary pollutant
Method used to trap and store carbon dioxide.
What is carbon sequestration?
Energy that is almost always available or replaceable in a reasonable amount of time.
What is renewable energy?
Energy that comes from heat underground.
What is geothermal?
The biggest danger posed by global warming to people living in coastal areas.
What is rising sea levels?
When sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and VOCs combine in the presence of sunlight, the result could be all of the following EXCEPT
tropospheric ozone
acid deposition (rain)
photochemical smog
a primary pollutant
What is a primary pollutant?
Chemicals responsible for ozone depletion
What are CFC's?
Damages ecosystems by building more roads to reach new sites.
What is a negative effect of increasing oil drilling in the U.S.?
The burning of corn cobs to heat your house is this type of energy.
What is biomass?
The binding international agreement that seeks to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Kyoto Protocol
Montreal Protocol
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
If Earth did not have an atmosphere?
it would be too hot for life to exist
Earth would not experience the greenhouse effect
it would be easier to breathe
Earth would not experience the greenhouse effect.
Removes or changes air pollutants before they leave the factory smokestack
What are scrubbers
The percents of energy that comes from nonrenewable and renewable energy sources.
What is 80 to 20?
If this happened, we would get busy and develop more alternative fuel sources.
What would happen if we used all of the fossil fuels?
Tropospheric ozone created when primary pollutants from vehicle exhaust react to sunlight.
What is ground-level ozone or photochemical smog?