Air Pollution
True or False: Does Air pollution contaminate the air?
What is true?
Air pollution is made up of particle ____.
What is pollution?
Using public transportation, carpooling, choosing to walk rather than drive, and carpooling.
What is an individual-scale method for reducing air pollutants?
True or False: Acid rain was discovered in 1853
What is true?
physiological stress and hearing loss
What are the effects of noise pollution?
Is normally thought of as an air pollutant, but it is a greenhouse gas.
What is CO2?
A geographic area where air quality is better than the national standard.
What is an attainment area?
Creation of subsidies for non pollution emitting power plants, the creation of a pollution credit system, and implementation of rebates for individuals purchasing electric vehicles.
What is a government-scale method for reducing air pollutants?
True or False: Acid rain harms the forests, helps lakes, and damages buildings
What is False?
Caterpillar hearts beat faster when exposed to simulated highway noise pollution.
Categorizes NO and NO2 into one group.
What is NOX?
Measurement techniques include using different types of continuous monitoring machines and other manual techniques.
What is EPA's methods for measuring air pollutants.
The air pollutant that vapor-recovery fuel nozzles reduce.
What are VOCs?
Acid rain describes any form of precipitation that contains ____ levels of nitric and sulfuric acids.
What is high?
Environmental Protection Agency and coordinates all Federal noise control activities.
What is EPA?
An air pollutant that comes from incomplete combustion and is lethal to humans.
What is carbon monoxide?
This assessment draws upon information and conclusions presented in the ISA to develop quantitative characterizations of exposures and associated risks to human health or the environment.
What is REA?
Aims to increase fuel efficiency in vehicles and reduce total energy consumption.
What is CAFE standards?
The primary contributing pollutants of acid rain.
What is Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and the combustion of other fossil fuels?
The most detrimental place for noise pollution because there are animals that rely on echolocation to survive.
What is the ocean?
This releases CO, CO2, SO2, NOX, PM, and toxic metals such as mercury, arsenic, and lead.
What is coal combustion?
A comprehensive review, synthesis, and evaluation of the most policy-relevant science, including key science judgments that are important to inform the development of the risk and exposure assessments
What is the Integrated Science Assessment?
An exhaust emission control device which converts toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine into less-toxic pollutants by catalyzing a redox reaction.
What is a catalytic converter?
Is caused by a chemical reaction that begins when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the air, by rainfall.
What is acid rain?
The amount of Db it takes for human hearing loss, and the name and amount of Db for the loudest city in the world.
What is 70 Db and Dhaka, Bangladesh with 119 Db?