Air Pollution and Human Impacts

What causes acid rain?

• High concentrations of sulfuric or nitric acid from pollution
• Fertilizer use
• Pesticide use
• CFCs

Acid rain can damage

• Drinking water sources

• Aquatic life

• Plant and Land Animals

• All options are correct

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What can you do to air out your house and get rid of indoor air pollution?

• Ventilation

• Emission

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Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Water vapor
• All answers are correct

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Greenhouse gases, in moderate amounts, keep the Earth's temperature stable

• True
• False

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Increase in which gas is primarily responsible for increased global warming?

• Carbon dioxide
• Water vapor
• Methane
• Nitric oxides

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Pollution created when ground level ozone reacts with more car exhaust.

• Acid

• Ozone

• Haze

• Smog

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Acid precipitation/rain can be traced back to

• the burning of fossil fuels.

• the use of electrostatic precipitators.

• thermal inversions.

• the release of particulate matter into the atmosphere.

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Which of the following are tiny bits of dander, dust, fibers, etc. floating in the air?

• haze

• smog

• particulate matter

• smoke

What is a primary pollutant?

• pollutant that is put directly into air by human or natural activities

• pollutants that react with other primary pollutants