Air Pollution

What are pollutants that are released from the source into the air in a harmful form?

• primary pollutants

• fugitive emissions

• secondary pollutants

• conventional pollutants

Which compound blocks oxygen uptake in blood by biding irreversibly to hemoglobin?

• nitrogen dioxide

• nitrous oxide

• carbon monoxide

• nitric oxide

What are pollutants that are converted to hazardous form after they enter the air or are formed by chemical reaction as components of the air mix and interact?

• primary pollutants

• fugitive emissions

• secondary pollutants

• conventional pollutants

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What compound is a reddish brown gas that gives photochemical smog its distinctive color?

• nitrogen dioxide

• nitrous oxide

• carbon monoxide

• nitric oxide

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NGSS.HS-PS1-2

What are pollutants called that do not originate from a smoke stack?

• primary pollutants

• fugitive emissions

• secondary pollutants

• conventional pollutants

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What is the intermediate form of nitrogen oxide that results from soil denitrification?

• nitrogen dioxide

• nitrous oxide

• carbons monoxide

• nitric oxide

This is the air around us.

• ambient air

• volatile organic compounds

• aerosols

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This is the deposition of wet acidic solutions or dry acidic particles from the air.

• chlorofluorocarbons

• acid precipitation

• photochemical oxidants

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

These are very fine solid or liquid particulates suspended in the atmosphere.

• ambient air

• volatile organic compounds

• aerosols

These are products of secondary atmospheric reactions.

• cholorflourocarbons

• acid precipitation

• photochemical oxidants