Brain Effects
This type of pollution mainly affects the brain.
What is air pollution?
Earth Day falls on this date.
What is April 22nd?
Name one pollutant that affects the nervous system.
What is polycyclic hydrocarbons?
What is fine particulate matter?
What is black carbon?
True or False? High exposure to pollution has been linked to increased risk of schizophrenia.
What is true?
The first Earth Day led to the formation of this government agency.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
True or False? Black carbon causes cognitive decline in men, not women.
What is false?
For pollutants to affect the brain, they may cross this key structure.
What is the blood brain barrier?
This president created the EPA.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Which of these does air pollution NOT cause?
A. Cancer
B. Mass deforestation
C. Decreased immune function
Air pollution causes this response in the nervous system.
What is inflammation?
Most of Earth's breathable air comes from this.
What is the ocean?
Air pollution can affect the size of this brain structure.
What is the basal ganglia?
Pollutants can affect this nervous system through ingestion.
What is the enteric nervous system?
This many countries celebrate and observe Earth Day.
What is 190?
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons arise from this.
What is coal, gasoline, and oil burning?