chapter 10 – air pollution

Which one is not one of the 6 criteria air pollutants?

• Lead

• Particulate materials

• Carbon monoxide

• Hydrogen dioxide

Which of the following is not a danger in poorly ventilated kitchens?

• Carbon monoxide

• Particulates

• Mercury

• Cancer causing hydrocarbons

What year was the Clean Air Act passed?

• 1960

• 1963, rewritten in 1970

• 1980

• 1990

What is the most common type of transportation of dust, aerosols, and greenhouse gases?

• Wind

• Water

• Human transportation

• Tectonic activity

What is the Montréal protocol?

• International agreement to reduce CO2 emissions

• The settlement of Montréal

• An emergency protocol in Montréal

• Canadian shenanigans

Global warming is an interaction between anthropogenic pollutants and the atmosphere.

• True

• False

Currently, CFCs in the atmosphere are declining faster than they are being added.

• True

• False

What is a temp inversion?

• Situation in which cold air tests near the ground with warm layers on top

• cold air is above the warm layers

• inverses the surrounding temperature making it an ideal environment

• pushes the surrounding heat and pollutants away from the buildings

which has been one of the greatest successes in pollutant control?

• Controls on sulfur dioxide emissions

• Controls on factory emissions

• Controls over agriculture and farming

• controls over plastic pollution

which acids corrode away and damage buildings?

• Sulfuric and phosphorus acids

• sulfuric and nitric acids

• sulfuric and Hydro chloric acids

• nitrates