Topics in Climate Change
The primary cause of global warming.
What are human activities?
The term for a substance being dissolved in solution
What is a solute?
The primary source of NOx emissions.
What is the combustion of fossil fuels?
The chemical term for most plastics
What is a polymer?
The main exposure route for PBDEs
Air
The primary sink for CO2 in the atmosphere
What is the deep ocean?
The primary source of oxygen in water systems.
What is surface equilibrium with the atmosphere?
The main source of ozone in the troposphere.
What is NO2 (and/or VOCs)?
The term for plastics smaller than a few micrometers.
What is a nanoplastic?
This "convention" defined and sanctioned POPs in 2004.
What is the Stockholm Convention?
The main goal of the Paris Climate Accord
What is limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees C?
The primary source of lead in drinking water?
What are lead pipes in older buildings?
The agreement to phase-out ozone depleting chemicals.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The simplest and least expensive polymer.
What is polyethylene?
The company that started selling C8 back in 1951.
What is 3M?
The primary effect of aerosols on the Earth's Climate.
What is a decrease in temperature?
The two things that cause water to have a higher than predicted boiling and freezing point
What are polarity and hydrogen bonding?
The chemical species primarily responsible for ozone depletion?
Cl, Br, or CFCs
This is one of the most common things made from polyvinyl chloride.
What are pipes?
The term for the dose required to kill 50% of a population
What is LD 50?
The atmospheric lifetime of methane.
What is less than a decade?
The primary source of mercury in the environment.
What is burning coal (and oil)?
The primary oxidant in the troposphere during the day.
What is the OH radical?
The percent of plastic waste in the US that comes from packaging
What is 50%?
The nickname for the 12 chemicals initially regulated by the Stockholm Convention.
What is the Dirty Dozen?