Air pollutants
Most common air pollutant from cars.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
Cars moving around on roads going from 1 place to another increases air pollution in the environment.
What is transportation?
A device incorporated in the exhaust system of a motor vehicle, containing a catalyst for converting pollutant gases into less harmful ones.
What is catalytic converter?
Harmful or annoying levels of noise, as from airplanes, industry, etc.
What is noise pollution?
Any form of precipitation with acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid that fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms.
What is acid rain?
A by-product of fossil fuels and copper extraction and a well known Air Pollutant.
What is Sulfur Dioxide?
Exposure to particuluate matter causes the growth of cells in the lungs which carry cancer-causing mutations.
What is lung cancer?
This practice is encouraged when traveling to a destination to minimize the amount of cars and air pollutants that come with multiple cars, these cars will be packed with people but there are less cars being used which helps the environment.
What is car pool?
Long-term exposure to noise can cause a variety of health effects including annoyance, sleep disturbance, negative effects on the cardiovascular and metabolic system, as well as cognitive impairment in children.
What is long term effects of noise pollution?
Acid rain can go undected for years and is well known to be an invisible pollution because it looks like normal rain.
What is undected acid rain?
Mostly found in trucks and various non-road vehicles like construction equipment.
What is Nitrogen Oxide?
Nitrogen oxide leads to tropospheric ozone which in turn causes ____ in our skies.
What is smog?
The identification of 6 common air pollutants and an act agreed upon by 34 countries.
What is Clean Air Act?
Air/Traffic noise, Construction sites, catering and night life.
What are the causes of noise pollution?
Air pollution like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides can cause respiratory diseases, or can make these diseases worse. Respiratory diseases like asthma or chronic bronchitis make it hard for people to breathe.
What is long term effects of acid rain?
Lies primarily in the stratosphere and protects us from the sun but is dangerous in the troposphere(where we are).
What is Ozone?
Discovered in 1979, they found this pollutant to be extremely toxic towards children and affects the neurological pathways that children normally grow up with.
What is lead?
A practice people use with cars that simply help the environment around them. They ____ __ their _______ when they are idle.
What is turn off engine?
Problems related to noise include stress related illnesses, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption, and lost productivity.
What is the noise pollution effects?
When humans breathe in air pollution the fine particulates can enter our lungs, where they can cause us to have breathing problems and over time can even lead to cancer.
What do sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxides make?
Existed in gasoline commonly 20-30 years and serves as a air pollutant.
What is Lead?
Air pollution is deterimental in low-income communities/states compared to high-income communities/states where healthcare is more accessible.
What is air pollutions effect on demographics?
Energy practices that can be used to reduce usage around the home the office place to help air pollution.
What is energy conservation?
Not all sound is considered noise pollution. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines noise above 65 decibels (dB) as noise pollution. To be precise, noise becomes harmful when it exceeds 75 decibels (dB) and is painful above 120 dB.
What are the levels to detect noise pollution?
Acid rain results when sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) are emitted into the atmosphere and transported by wind and air currents. The SO2 and NOX react with water, oxygen and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids. These then mix with water and other materials before falling to the ground.
What do sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxides make?