Environment Chapter 10

Air pollution is best defined as ________.

Which of the following is a secondary air pollutant?

Which of the following is not an aerosol?

________ pollutants are chemicals or particles that are directly emitted from identifiable sources.

A temperature inversion can adversely affect air quality and is characterized by ________.

Photochemical smog is formed when primary air pollutants interact with ________.

CFCs were primarily used in ________.

Scrubbers remove 90% of ________.

An aerosol mixture of particulates and sulfur compounds forms a grayish-colored substance that is called ________.

All of the following are considered indoor air pollutants except ________.

The best way to address outdoor air pollution is to ________.

Radon is an indoor air pollutant that has been linked to ________.

The most common human health response to air pollution is ________.

Stratospheric ozone depletion is currently most serious ________.

All of the following are major steps to controlling air pollution except ________.

Which step would be most likely to have the greatest effect on improving outdoor air pollution?

Which of the following health problems associated with UV exposure is also associated with thinning of Earth ozone layer?

Stratospheric ozone destruction involves a complex series of reactions. These reactions begin with ________.

The primary sources of the acidity in acid rain are the gases ________.

Which of the following acts set new standards to reduce automobile emissions along with establishing a cap-and- trade program for reducing sulfur dioxide emissions?

All of the following pollutants were targeted for reduction by 2010, according to The 1999 Protocol, except ________.

Which of the following pesticides was used to kill termites and treat wood between 1948 and 1988?

Which naturally emitted gas, accumulating in indoor spaces, has been linked with lung cancer in humans?

The EPA regulates the demolition and renovation of older buildings because they may contain ________.

In many developing countries a primary indoor air pollutant is ________.

Trace gases make up ________ of the Earth atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide released by automobiles is an example of a ________ source of pollution.

Acid rain is an example of ________ deposition.

Aerosols of sulfur compounds affect climate in what way?

Which of the following heavy metals is/are associated with damage to the human nervous system?

Indoor air is likely to be contaminated by all of the following except ________.

The Donora killer smog of 1948 was primarily a consequence of ________.

Rowland and Molina work showed that ultraviolet light in the stratosphere causes CFCs to release ________ atoms.

Students at MIT developed a method to produce ________ from agricultural wastes, resulting in a safer indoor fuel for use in developing countries.

Which of the following particles is likely to fall out of the air faster?

According to the graph, what year was the Montreal Protocol most likely to have been enacted?

Where are deaths from indoor smoke most likely?

Where in the United States is the risk of radon exposure lowest?

You go onto the AirNow website, enter your zipcode, and receive your local AQI for the EPAs criterion pollutants. Your AQI is 136. You spent about an hour outside today doing yardwork. Based on these graphs, you should be most concerned about your exposure to ________.

Air Pollution

Air Quality

Volatile Organic Compounds

Particulate Matter

Photochemicals