Air Pollution
A pollutant that forms from the reaction of substances in the environment
What is a secondary pollutant?
Any pollutant put directly into the air by human activity
What is a primary pollutant?
Long-term average temp. & precipitation patterns in a particular place
What is climate?
Name a GHG other than carbon dioxide
What is methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, CFCs?
Two examples of primary air pollutants
carbon monoxide, NOx, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), dust, smoke, pollen, etc.
Two primary causes of human-produced air pollution
What are transportation, industry, agriculture, burning fossil fuels, etc.
A location's distance from the equator and the most significant determinant of that area's climate
What is latitude?
Name an adaptation strategy for climate change
What is: raising seawalls, raising streets, pump systems, drought-resistant crops, etc.
Generalized term for a mixture of air pollutants over a city
What is smog?
Name 2 criteria pollutants regulated under the CAA
What are: ground-level ozone, PM, SO2, NO2, CO (carbon monoxide), lead (Pb)
The layer of the stratosphere that protects earth from the sun's strongest ultraviolet radiation
What is the ozone layer?
4 consequences / effects of climate change
What are four of the following: sea level rise, coral bleaching, severe droughts/wildfires, stronger hurricanes, spread of tropical diseases (ex: malaria), biodiversity loss, human displacement, coastal flooding, etc.?
A long-term health effect of air pollution.
What is emphysema, lung cancer, or heart disease?
Device in a fuel-burning vehicle that reduces harmful emissions such as NOx and CO
What is a catalytic converter?
Percent of Nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere
What is 78%?
3 examples of what an individual, can do to address climate change.
What are: driving less/biking, recycling, eat less meath, produce less waste (reduce), EV use, composting, improving energy efficiency in the home, lowering the AC, planting trees, etc.
A pollution-control device used in industry ( found in smoke stacks of factories or power plants).
What is a scrubber?
Paint, gasoline and some strong cleaning products give off these pollutants
What are VOCs?
Earth's 3 climate zones from the equator north/south
What are: tropical, temperate, polar zones?
2 mitigation strategies: one preventive and one clean-up
What are: renewable energy & composting (preventative); reforestation and methane capture from landfills (clean-up)?