Pollution
What we call the fumes that come from the backs of cars and trucks that fill the air with pollution.
What is exhaust?
The color on air quality monitoring apps that shows the air is clean and healthy to breathe.
What is green?
Suggestions from experts that people can use when outdoor air is less healthy.
What are air quality safety tips?
The size of smaller pieces of pollution from vehicles, factories, and wildfires that can get deep into your lungs and into your bloodstream.
What is PM 2.5?
Air pockets deep inside your lungs that capture oxygen and move it into your blood.
What are alveoli?
The nickname for the type of fuels that coal, oil, and natural gases are.
What are fossil fuels?
The color on air quality monitoring apps that means the air is ok to breathe but not completely healthy.
What is yellow?
The name that describes the tiny pieces of pollution from smoke and smog.
What is particle pollution?
The size of larger pieces of pollution from construction or agricultural dust. Your body clears them with coughing and mucus.
What is PM 10?
The breathing tubes that carry air from your windpipe into your lungs.
What are bronchi?
Hazy layer that hangs over cities and makes the sky look gray and the air unhealthy.
What is smog?
The color on air quality monitoring apps that means the air is unhealthy for everyone.
What is red?
The word that describes all types of harmful gases and particles in the air.
What is pollution?
The physical trait of the pollution particles that determines how far they travel in your body.
What is size?
A sticky substance produced by your airway glands to protect your lungs by trapping larger particles.
What is mucus?
Heat‑trapping gases in the air that build up and make the planet slowly warm over time.
What are greenhouses gases?
The score that tells you how clean or polluted the air is and if it is good to be outside.
What is the Air Quality Index (AQI)?
Particles from trees, grasses, and weeds that effect people with allergies or asthma.
What is pollen?
Even short-term exposure to PM 2.5 can cause people to go to this health facility; especially people who have heart or lung conditions.
What is the emergency department or hospital?
Moving hair-like structures that line your airways and act like brushes to sweep pollution particles out.
What are cilia?
Word that describes pollution made by people not the environment.
What is human made pollution?
Name a natural source of pollution.
What is a volcano, or a dust storm, or a wildfire?
This layer of gas forms when pollution mixes with oxygen at ground level. This layer of gas is also naturally formed in our upper atmosphere.
What is ozone?
Exposure to PM 10 can cause these symptoms in your nose, throat, or lungs.
What is inflammation, irritation, scratchiness, or soreness?
This test can help people with COPD or asthma track their lung health. It measures how much air they can breathe in and out during a breath.
What is a spirometer?