Environmental Science Ch. 12 Review

Ozone forms when automobile emissions react with _____ gas and ultraviolet rays from the sun.

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• water vapor

• nitrogen

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Which type of pollution can cause hearing loss, high blood pressure, loss of sleep and stress?

• light

• air

• noise

• water

When fossil fuels are burned, they release oxides of _____ and when these oxides combine with water in the atmosphere, they form sulfuric acid and nitric acid, which falls as acid precipitation.

• aluminum

• sulfur

• nitrogen

• mercury

The _____ requires many industries to use scrubbers or other pollution-control devices to remove some of the more harmful and poisonous substances before they are released into the atmosphere.

• Clean Air Act

• California Air Resources Board

• Canada-U.S. Air Quality Agreement in 1991

• Air Quality Act

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Most of the acid precipitation that falls in southeastern Canada results from pollution produced in the midwestern and eastern states. Which of the following is NOT one of those states?

• Ohio

• Indiana

• Pennsylvania

• New York

Most of the acid precipitation that falls in southeastern Canada results from pollution produced in the midwestern and eastern states. Which of the following is NOT one of those states?

• Illinois

• Missouri

• West Virginia

• Minnesota

Most of the acid precipitation that falls in southeastern Canada results from pollution produced in the midwestern and eastern states. Which of the following is one of those states?

• Kentucky

• Iowa

• Wisconsin

• Tennessee

_____ causes aluminum to leach out of the soil surrounding a lake.

• Smog

• Acid precipitation

• Radon

• Ground-level ozone

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds are _____.

• primary pollutants

• secondary pollutants

• point-source pollution

• nonpoint-source pollution

Ground-level ozone is a _____.

• primary pollutant

• secondary pollutant

• point-source pollution

• nonpoint-source pollution

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2