This town in Pennsylvania had a "Fluoride Smog" disaster in 1948.
What is Donora?
100
This is the name of the Act that was passed to regulate air pollution?
What is the Clean Air Act?
100
The biggest sulfur dioxide emitter in La Crosse County is this facility, within walking distance of our school.
What is the UW-L boiler/power plant?
100
This pollutant is produced by burning coal and can cause acid rain.
What is sulfur dioxide?
100
Since a lot of pollutants come from burning coal, and coal is what generates our electricity, we can individually help reduce pollution by doing one of these things.
What is many many answers?
200
This is when a warm air layer gets trapped between two cold air layers and pollutants build up in the bottom layer.
What is a thermal inversion?
200
Name three pollutants that the original Clean Air Act covered.
What are:
Sulfur dioxide
Carbon monoxide
Particulates
Ozone
Nitrogen oxides
Lead
?
200
This is La Crosse County's biggest emitter of Nitrogen Oxides.
What is Xcel Energy?
200
This pollutant used to be in gasoline, but no more.
What is lead?
200
This is a section where pollutants get washed out with sprayed water before they go into the smokestack.
What is a scrubber?
300
This is the source of the pollutants in both the London and Donora disasters.
What is burning coal?
300
This is the agency in charge of enforcing the Clean Air Act.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
300
This is the biggest emitter of carbon monoxide in La Crosse County.
What is the La Crosse Municipal Airport?
300
This is a term for particles of dust, soot, ash, etc... that is released into the air.
What is particulate matter?
300
This is the international agreement that resulted in CFCs being phased out, saving the ozone layer.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
400
This is the type of industry that was the big polluter in Donora.
What was a metal smelting plant?
400
The effect of the Clean Air Act regulations on air pollution has been to increase expected lifespan in America by this much.
What is 4-8 months?
400
Most of the electricity we use in La Crosse County is produced by doing this in this place (two parts: what, where).
What is burning coal in Vernon County?
400
This molecule is good in the upper atmosphere, where it protects us from UV radiation, but bad at ground level, where it damages our tissues.
What is ozone?
400
This fuel burns much cleaner than coal, although it still releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
What is natural gas?
500
This was how the townspeople in Donora reacted to the pollution in their town as the crisis happened.
What is that they ignored it? Went on with their lives? Didn't do anything about it until people were dying?
500
These two emerging environmental issues coming from Air pollution were added to the Clean Air Act in 1990.
What are acid rain and depletion of the ozone layer?
500
Although the airport is the biggest point source of carbon monoxide in our county, these sources all added together probably produce more carbon monoxide.
What are our vehicles?
500
This is the name for the chlorine-containing molecules that were damaging the ozone layer.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
500
This is a chamber with electrically charged plates which remove some pollutants from coal emissions before they are released into the air.