Air Pollution

What do cars, power plants, and furnaces have in common?

• They all burn gasoline

• They all burn coal

• They all burn wood

• They all burn fossil fuels

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which of these situations is commonly caused by acid rain?

• People being poisoned by drinking water

• Fish and birds in freshwater habitats dying off

• People receiving acid burns on their skin

• Whales and dolphins dying off in the oceans

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The ozone layer blocks deleterious UV radiation. What does "deleterious" mean?

• Life-sustaining

• Harmful

• Pleasant

• Foul-smelling

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What can you infer from the fact that smog mainly affects cities?

• Air pollution is most serious in areas with many homes, factories, and offices

• Air pollution never affects rural areas

• Animals don’t cause any air pollution

• Cities attract air pollution because they extend so high in the atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is one difference between smog and acid rain?

• Smog makes it difficult to breathe; acid rain wipes out natural habitats

• Smog is caused by burning fossil fuels; acid rain is caused by cow burps

• Scientists agree that smog is caused by humans, but disagree over the cause of acid rain

• Smog only affects cities; acid rain only affects rural areas

Changes the pH of water, making it harmful to living things

• carbon dioxide

• acid rain

• ozone layer

• smog

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Gas released by the burning of fossil fuels

• carbon dioxide

• acid rain

• ozone layer

• smog

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Protects the planet's surface from harmful solar radiation

• carbon dioxide

• acid rain

• ozone layer

• smog

A mixture of smoke and fog that forms over cities

• carbon dioxide

• acid rain

• ozone layer

• smog

pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single, specific site

• carbon dioxide

• nonpoint source pollution

• ozone layer

• point source pollution