Air Pollution

What is a primary pollutant? 

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

What is a secondary pollutant? 

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

A type of pollution found both indoors and outdoors, which includes pollen, dander, soot, carbon, and dust.

• Water droplets
• Allergens
• Particulate matter
• Combustibles

1. Smog is...

• A type of acid rain
• A chemical reaction between the water in the air, pollution and the sun.
• A type of cloud

What is air pollution?

• Any harmful substance that builds up in the air 
• pollen, dust, gases
• industrial pollution
• chemicals in the water

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What absorbs ultraviolet rays in the atmosphere?

• troposphere
• stratosphere
• ozone layer
• greenhouse gases

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Where is the "GOOD" ozone located?

• troposphere

• stratosphere

• mesosphere

• thermosphere

This protects us from harmful UV rays from the sun

• Troposphere
• Stratosphere
• Greenhouse Effect
• Ozone Layer

What does this diagram illustrate?

• Ozone Layer
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Ultraviolet Radiation
• Layers of the atmosphere

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.
• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

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