Air Pollution Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. Cars in the United States

2. How can you stay healthy when there is bad air pollution

3. Joy cuts down trees to make billions of toothpicks. Joy doesn't use toothpicks, she flosses. What is she destroying?

4. When VOC's, NO$_{x}$, SO$_{x}$ chemically interact with the sun producing ozone and other PM.

5. Natural processes that cause air pollution, and climate change, within the Earth's atmosphere can consist of:

6. What is the composition of the air in the atmosphere?

7. How does acid rain affect humans?

8. Air pollution can cause _____

9. Which of the following is NOT an effect of acid rain?

10. The "new car" smell that you get from cars and new furniture comes from what kind of pollutant?

11. All of the following are evidence of rapid climate change except

12. Headache, eye irritation, coughing, bronchitis

13. The chemicals released directly into the air from factories and vehicles would be considered

14. Type of air pollution that is formed when sunlight reacts with waste gases from the burning of fossil fuels

15. Seventy-eight percent of Earth's atmosphere is made up of

16. This causes the MOST pollution:

17. Radon is usually found in this location in your home.

18. Why is ozone high in the atmosphere good?

19. A pollutant that is put directly into the air by human activity is called a _____ pollutant.

20. Which method is used to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions?

21. The primary source of radon is

22. The majority of sulfur dioxide produced by industry comes from

23. This is a pollutant produced by burning fossil fuels, but was not addressed in either the 1972 or 1990 Clean Air Acts

24. The mixture of gases that surrounds Earth. The outermost of the four spheres into which scientists divide Earth.

25. Which type of smog is made worse by sunlight?