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Pollutants
DAQ
My Body
Weather
Sources
100
Tiny bits of solid pollution small enough to float in the air
What is particulate matter or PM?
100
DAQ stands for this Utah State Agency's name
What is the Division of Air Quality?
100
When we breathe, air goes through this "windpipe" to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
100
These large formations on three (or more) sides where we live make valleys and also can trap cold air in certain weather patterns
What are mountains?
100
This two-wheeled machine is powered by your body instead of an engine
What is a bicycle?
200
Meaning "partial burning", this term describes when fuel doesn't have enough oxygen to burn cleanly
What is incomplete combustion?
200
This button on the DAQ website shows you the hourly readings from the Hawthorne monitor
What is "Current Conditions"?
200
This gas is needed by our bodies, and our hearts, lungs, and blood work together to deliver it
What is oxygen?
200
This term describes the "upside down" situation of cold air at low elevations and warm air higher up
What is inversion?
200
Running a motor while a car or truck isn't going anywhere is called this
What is idling?
300
Particulate Matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter
What is PM2.5
300
When you click on "forecast" it's the Mandatory Action symbol that tells you it's a bad time to go for a drive and against the law to light a fire
What is X?
300
These tiny hairs in our nasal cavity, trachea, and bronchial tubes help defend the lungs from unwanted particles.
What are cilia?
300
This builds up when we have the same air trapped for days.
What is air pollution?
300
Collectively called "mobile sources", these types of machines make more than half of our air pollution.
What are cars and trucks (and tractors, trains, buses, etc.)?
400
A type of gas pollution that usually has a strong smell and helps make PM and other types of pollution
What are VOCs
400
What color indicates that the air is clean and it's okay to play normally?
What is green?
400
After the trachea branches into the bronchial tubes, the branches reach these tiny, thin sacs where oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange.
What are alveoli?
400
This is the name for the body of air that is trapped, has a barrier with the warmer air above, and may not mix out for days or even weeks
What is a (persistent) cold air pool?
400
Although not a fossil fuel, burning this can produce much more pollution than almost anything else.
What is wood?
500
Black in color, a type of direct PM made by incomplete combustion of wood, paper, diesel, gas, or other fuel
What is soot?
500
The units or PM2.5 pollution are given in these units, a form of weight/volume of air
What is micrograms/cubic meter?
500
When this happens to the smallest tubes (bronchi) and sacs (alveoli) in our lungs, it will be harder to breathe, and we may even get very sick.
What is irritation, swelling, or clogging?
500
The only type of car that does not release some form exhaust while running is powered by this form of energy.
What is electricity?