AP Environmental Air Pollution

Which city, state or country produces most air pollution per year

• China

• UTAH

• Russia

• Middle East

These have no emissions from tailpipes or gasoline

• Hybrid vehicles

• Zero emissions vehicles

• Internal combustion vehicles

• All have emissions

Emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease

• indoor air pollution

• long-term effects of air pollution

• short-term effects of air pollution

• sick-building syndrome

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Which rock can be used to counteract acid rain?

• Limestone

• Calcium

• Granite

• Asbestos

Ozone is a natural component of the Earth’s stratosphere as well as an element of photochemical smog. Ozone also can be an indoor air pollutant. Sources of ozone in homes or offices include:

•  combustion of fossil fuels

• household solvents and cleaning fluids

• photocopying machines, printers, and other high-voltage electrical equipment  

• electrolysis of tap water

“Scrubbing” is a technique used to:

• collect particulates produced by coal-burning power plants

• control carbon monoxide production in automobiles

• control sulfur emissions in the exhaust from a power plant

• remove carbon dioxide from the exhaust of a power plant

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Nitrogen oxides (NO_x) are:

• a yellow-brown gas that contributes to photochemical smog

• a colorless and odorless gas that binds to hemoglobin in blood 

• a colorless and odorless gas that damages the lungs

• a reactive gas produced, in part, by photochemical reaction of sunlight  with various air pollutants  

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Which is an anthropogenic source of nitrogen oxides?

• Nuclear fission

• Combustion of natural gas

• Volcanic eruptions

• motor vehicles

Which piece of legislation is most likely to have caused a significant decrease in acid deposition?

• Clean Air Act

• Clean Water Act

• Kyoto Protoccol

• Montreal Protoccol

Lead emissions since the early 1980s have

• Remained about the same.

• Decreased due to lead free gasoline.

• Increased because developing countries generally do not use lead free gasoline and are using automobiles at higher rates.