Types of Pollution Pre-test

What is the main cause for air pollution?

• Vehicle Emissions

• Household/Farming chemical products

• Burning of Fossil Fuel

• Deforestation

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How does air pollution contribute to global warming?

• Air pollution is already hot.

• It doesn't.

• The pollution traps heat from the Sun and cannot be removed for 50-200 years.

• Air pollution dries out areas which makes them vulnerable to fires.

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Air pollution can cause health problems, such as...

• Paralyzation

• ADHD

• The deterioration of your lungs

• none

Pollution _________________________.

• is harmful materials put into the environment

• found in air, water, and land

• effects plants, animals, and people

• All of the above

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What is a primary pollutant? 

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

This atmospheric compound is critical to the planet in its protection against UV radiation, but when found close to the ground is part of photochemical smog that can cause serious health problems.

• particulate matter

• carbon monoxide

• stratospheric ozone

• tropospheric ozone

What is a secondary pollutant? 

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

Which two primary pollutants most often result in acid rain?

• sulfuric dioxide and nitric oxide
• carbon monoxide and VOCs
• ZEVs and VOCs
• carbonic acid and citric acid

Scrubbers and electrostatic precipitators help industries meet the requirements of this

• Air Pollution Act

• Temperature Inversion Act

• Clean Air Act

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Volatile organic compounds

• are tiny particles of liquid or solid matter

• are produced by chemical interactions between sulfur and oxygen

• are an odorless, colorless poisonous gas

• are organic chemicals that form toxic fumes