APES - 7.1-7.4 Review

A colorless, odorless gas -internal combustion- cars- can kill.

• Nitrogen oxides

• Ground-level ozone

• Carbon monoxide

• Sulfur dioxide

Combines with other pollutants to form acid rain

• Nitrogen oxides & sulfur dioxide
• Particulate matter & lead
• Nitrogen oxides & ground-level ozone
• Sulfur dioxide & ground-level ozone

Pollution hanging over urban areas that causes reduced visibility is called (smoke and fog)

• Air pollution

• Temperature inversion

• Light pollution

• Smog

What is the major cause for air pollution? 

• factories and cars
• cigarretes 
• deforestation
• oil spills

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

—The Clean Air Act- regulates vehicle emissions.

• true
• false

What is a primary pollutant? 

• pollutant that is put directly into air by human activities
• pollutants that react with other primary pollutants

Which of the following is an example of a secondary air pollutant?

• nitrogen dioxide

• sulfur dioxide

• tropospheric ozone

• carbon monoxide

Air pollution can cause...

• asthma
• lung cancer
• emphysema
• ALL OF THE ABOVE

Responsible for PHOTOCHEMICAL - yellow-brown smog- select 3

• VOC's

• NOx

• Sunlight

• radon

The ozone layer protects us from

• UV rays
• CFCs
• Increased atmospheric heat
• Decreased atmospheric heat