Air Pollution

What is combustion?

• Carbon dioxide reacts with fuel to release energy

• Water vapor reacts with fuel to release energy

• Ozone reacts with fuel to release energy

• Oxygen reacts with fuel to release energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

What are coal, oil, wood, & air pollutants?

• Pure Fuels

• Dirty Fuels

What layer of the atmosphere is where our weather patterns are located, approximately 10 km altitude?

• Thermosphere

• Mesophere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer, approximately 50 km in altitude?

• Thermosphere

• Mesophere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

True or False: Cold air rises under normal conditions.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which picture - A or B - shows a thermal inversion?

• A

• B

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Who enforces the Clean Air Act?

True or False: Acid rain has a lower pH than normal rain.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Where does most of the dust in the atmosphere come from?

True or False: The amount of dust in the air changes seasonally.

• True

• False