Pollution Sources
Effects of Pollution
Measuring Air Quality
Mix Up
Improving Air Quality
100

List two man-made sources of air pollution

Possible answers.....

Cars       Factories       Farms       Cows

Burning of Fossil Fuels     Construction

100

an increase in temperature around the world that could eventually be harmful to living things.

global warming

100

What does A.Q.I stand for?

Air Quality Index

100

Which law is used to regulate air pollution?

The clean air act

100

Name one thing you can do to improve the quality of the air we breathe?

Walk, Bike, Carpool,  Reduce Driving, Drive electric car, 

200

List two natural sources of air pollution.

Possible answers........

Volcanoes              Wildfires

Radon          Lightning        Dust Storms

Animals

200

When the PH level in precipitation decreases 

acid rain 

200

What color AQI is the best/safest?

Green

200

The word smog is a combination of two words.  What are those two words?

Smog + Fog

200

Ozone is unhealthy to breathe at ground level.  Where does ozone exist where it is very helpful?

Stratosphere

300

Any harmful substance in the air, water, or soil.

Pollutant

300

These are large thick masses of ice that melt because of global warming.

glaciers

300

What color AQI is the worst?

Maroon

300

 are chemicals largely responsible for depleting the ozone layer

CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons)

300

List the AQI colors in order from safest to most dangerous.

Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple, Maroon

400

This type of rain was once problem in the US.  It was caused mainly when gases from burning fossil fuels mixed with water in the air.

Acid Rain

400

what in our atmosphere is starting to form a hole?

The ozone layer

400

AQI measures five pollutants.  One is PM.   What does "PM" stand for?

Particulate Matter

400

why is it important to monitor the air pollution?

to maintain human respiratory health

400

what causes air pollution to travel?

Winds

500

Pollutants formed by the combination of primary pollutants in the atmosphere


secondary polluntants 

500

what are 3 health effects?

Cancer, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease,etc 

500
what are the 5 pollutants regulated by the clean air act

?

  • ground-level ozone
  • particle pollution (also known as particulate matter, including PM2.5 and PM10)
  • carbon monoxide
  • sulfur dioxide
  • nitrogen dioxide
500

what is a effect of ozone depletion 

skin cancer 

500

This act/law helped to reduce air pollution in the United States by 60%

Clean Air Act