Air Pollution

__________________ occurs when harmful materials are released into the air and cause damage to living organisms and the environment.

• Air pollution

• Water vapor

• Ultraviolet radiation

• Filtered air

Which of the following cause air pollution?

• cars, factories, forest fires

• lung cancer, asthma, eye irritation

• electric cars, recycling, bicycling

• fading paint, sick animals, wilted plants

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is a primary pollutant?

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

• pollutants that react with other primary pollutants

Which system of the body is mainly affected by air pollution?

• Respiratory (lungs)

• Skeletal (bones)

• Muscular (muscles)

• Digestive (stomach)

What is the major cause for air pollution?

• factories, cars, generating electricity

• growing agricultural crops

• deforestation

• oil spills

The general term for air pollution that reduces visibility, especially in cities, by forming a brown haze when secondary pollutants interact with sunlight.

• acid rain

• particulate matter

• smog

• fog

What is a secondary pollutant? 

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

When chemicals coming out of cars and factories react with the sunlight and produce a form of oxygen called _______ which naturally occurs in the stratosphere.

• Ozone

• Photochemical Smog

• Temperature Inversion

• Emissions

Precipitation that is more acidic than normal because of air pollution is called ___________

• Acid Rain

• Radon

• Pollution

• Photochemical Smog

Chemicals released into the air that can cause serious health problems are _________________.

• hot air pollutants

• toxic air pollutants

• acid rain

• ambient air pollutants