Air pollution

How many deaths can be attributed to air pollution in the UK each year?

• 4,000

• 50,000

• 40,000

• 600,000

In incomplete combustion, which reactant is limiting?

• Carbon dioxide

• Oxygen

• Fuel

• Carbon particulates

Which is not a product of incomplete combustion?

• carbon monoxide

• water

• carbon particulates

• nitrogen dioxide

Select the right number to fill in the blank in this equation!

CH₄ + __ O₂ -> CO + 2 H₂O

• 2

• 1.5

• 3

• 1

Which of these pollutants causes respiratory diseases, lung cancer, and asthma?

• Carbon particulates

• Sulfur dioxide

• Carbon monoxide

• Carbon dioxide

Which of these pollutants binds to haemoglobin and reduces oxygen supply around the body?

• Nitrogen dioxide

• Carbon particulates

• Sulfur dioxide

• Carbon monoxide

Which of these pollutants contributes to global dimming?

• Sulfur dioxide

• Carbon dioxide

• Carbon monoxide

• Carbon particulates

Which two pollutants can create acid rain?

• Carbon particulates

• Sulfur dioxide

• Nitrous oxides

• Carbon monoxide

Nitrous oxides (NO_x) are produced...

• from N₂ and O₂ in car engines

• from impurities in fossil fuels

• during incomplete combustion

• in the catalytic converters of cars

How is London trying to combat air pollution?

• It is building a forest city

• It is using drones to spray water in the atmosphere

• It has introduced an ultra-low emissions zone

• It has banned the combustion of fossil fuels