The Night Before
A weather system with high atmospheric pressure at its center, causing the air around it to slowly spin
What is an anticyclone?
What is meters?
The form that Asia's air pollution crisis comes in
What is the “Asian Brown Cloud”?
The place that Texas A&M were studying when they accidentally found a theory for the Smog's cause.
What is Bejing, China?
This weather phenomenon occurs when cold, stagnant air is trapped under a layer of warm air, causing fog.
What is temperature inversion?
The only public transportation system that was still able to function.
What is the London Underground railway system?
The animal that the smog caused to die of asphyxiation.
What are cattle?
The season that the Asian Brown Cloud messes with
What is the monsoon season?
The type of acid that scientists believe the weather and pollution caused the fog to turn into.
What is a haze of concentrated sulfuric acid?
The type of environmental disaster the London Smog was.
The reason that people had to transport themselves to hospitals.
What is the stop of ambulance services?
A European News Station that has produced some news stories about the air quality of modern day London.
What is BBC News?
A United States agency in charge of environmental things, from setting limits on certain air pollutants to enforcing federal clean water and safe drinking laws. They also enforce federal regulations to reduce the impact of businesses on the environment.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
The country that 22 of 30 of the world's most air polluted cities are in.
What is India?
The main pollutants in the air at the time.
What are coal and wood fire emissions?
The cause of cancellation or abandonment of concerts and movie screenings because visibility was so bad.
What is the smog seeping indoors?
Something worn by the citizens of London to help protect themselves from the harmful air.
What is a "smog mask"?
An act that was put in place in London after the Smog that put restrictions on the ways people could generate power. It was an attempt to motivate people to move away from coal and use cleaner-burning fuels and more fuel-efficient vehicles.
What is the Clean Air Act 1956?
Urban areas have high emission rates from vehicles and industry.
What is the reason that urban areas are more likely to have high air pollution?
What is the 5th through the 9th?
The age groups affected the most by the smog.
What are elderly and infants?
Devices used to provide an audible warning to signal stopping times and other things for the Underground railways.
What is a "detonator"?
Agencies (like the EPA's) goal to help improve air quality
What is wanting to make electricity or clean burning fuel and combustion technologies to become readily available for everyone?
The continent that's air was found to be the most polluted in 2018
What is Asia?