Firday Quiz 1/11/19

In 1970 the US government set air quality standards called the...

• Breath Easy Act

• Clean Air Act

Over the past 30 years, air quality in the United States has generally...

• improved

• declined

What types of air pollution can the gases from car exhaust create?

• ozone

• smog and acid rain

• sulfur dioxide

• oxygen

Ground level ozone (also known as tropospheric ozone) is ______________________.

• a significant source of air pollution and contributes to the formation of smog

• also found in the exosphere

• found only in rural areas

• a significant source of air pollution and contributes to the increase in the hole in the ozone layer.

Ozone is made up of __________________ oxygen atoms.

• 3

• 2

• 1

• 5

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The atmospheric layer that humans live in is known as the _____________________.

• troposphere.

• stratosphere.

• exosphere.

• thermosphere.

"Criteria Air Pollutants" were established by the _________________________________.

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Department of the Interior (DI)

• Center for Disease Control (CDC)

• United Nations (UN)

Nitrous oxides enter the atmosphere from _____________________.

• fossil fuels

• meteorites

• ozone depletion

• CFC's

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Chlorofluorocarbons is represented by the abbreviation _________________.

• CFC

• ChFC

• Chl

• hydrocarbons

Bad or Hazardous ozone is found in the _______________________________.

• troposphere

• stratosphere

• mesosphere

• thermosphere