Bonus Mix
Moving somewhere else using more fossil fuels.
What is exporting waste?
Global human water use.
What is industrial, municipal, and agriculture?
Coal combustion.
What is sulfur dioxide?
Produced by decomposition of organic material.
What is methane?
A type of combustion that releases more air pollutants than other FFs (35% global energy).
What is coal combustion?
Water for livestock, irrigation water for crops.
What is agriculture?
Power plants, metal/ plastic manufacturing.
What is industrial?
What is the ozone layer?
Chemicals released by older leaking refrigerators and air conditioners.
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
pH levels of 0-6.
What is acidic on the pH scale?
Cleaning, cooking, bathing, and showering.
Climate change, drought, and polluted water.
What are causes of climate change?
Acidic particles and gases deposit from the atmosphere in moisture absence.
What is dry deposition?
Produced by chemical reactions with N2O released by internal combustion (cars).
What is the tropospheric ozone?
Released by combustion of anything, especially FFs and biomass.
What are nitrogen oxides?
The impacts of this answer are reduced crop yield, livestock death, food shortage, and more.
What is water insecurity?
Useable groundwater deposits replenished by groundwater recharge.
What are aquifers?
Suspended sulfate particles block incoming sun, reducing visibility and photosynthesis.
What are sulfur aerosols?
Additional atmospheric warming due to the presence of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities.
What is the enhanced greenhouse effect?
pH levels of 8-14.
What is alkaline/ basic on the pH scale?
Forms when water table is lowered by excessive pumping, depleting water and drying nearby wells.
What is the cone of depression?
Excessive pumping near coast lowers water table pressure, letting saltwater seep in groundwater.
What is saltwater intrusion?
Identified 6 air pollutants that the EPA is required to set acceptable limits to enforce.
What is the Clean Air Act of 1970?
The capacity to retain heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is radiative forcing?
The sulfuric and nitric acids formed in the atmosphere fall to the ground mixed with rain, snow, fog, or hail.
What is wet deposition?