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Types of Air Pollution
Acid Rain
Vocab
Air We Breathe
Solutions
100
Air pollution that hangs over cities and reduces visibility.
What is smog?
100
This type of precipitation has a lower pH level than normal precipitation.
Acid precipitation, or acid rain.
100
A pollutant that is put directly into the air by human activity.
What is a primary pollutant?
100

Long, thin fibers valued for thier strength and resistance to heat. This material is often used to insulate buildings.

What is fiberglass?

100
Acid rain has been bad in this U.S. state, whose capital is Columbus.
What is Ohio?
200
This is the type of pollution that occurs when you guys yell all the time (unwanted sounds).
What is noise pollution?
200

A measure of how acidic or basic a substance is.

What is pH?

200

This is the process of removing the salt from salt water.

What is desalination?

200

This is the most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere.

What it nitrogen?
200
This type of car uses both gasoline and electric power.
What is a hybrid?
300

Yellow substance produced by seed plants that is all over the place right now.

What is pollen?

300

This is the pH of pure water.

What is 7.0?

300

Atmospheric gasses that trap heat and warm the planet by absorbing infrared radiation

What are greenhouse gases?

300
This is the symbol for Carbon Monoxide.
What is CO?
300
This government agency enforces to Clean Air Act.
What is The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA?
400
Organic chemicals that vaporize readily and form toxic fumes.
What are volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.
400

A sudden influx of acidic water that changes the water's pH.

What is acid shock?

400
This is a species that has a declining population and that is likely to become endangered if it is not protected.
What is a threatened species.
400

This gas is produced by the decay of uranium and often seems through cracks and holes from the ground into buildings.

What is radon?

400
This act requires industries to use scrubbers, among other things.
What is the Clean Air Act?
500
These form when primary pollutants react with other primary pollutants or with naturally occurring substances. Ozone is an example.
What are secondary pollutants?
500
Tiny particles of liquid or solid matter that become suspended in the air.
What are particulates (or pm)?
500
When air high in the sky is warmer than air at ground level.
What is temperature inversion?
500

What is the part of a car that controls emissions.

What is a catalytic converter? 

500

This is the percentage of species that have gone extinct in the last 200 years (within 5%).

What is 25%?