What are the major differences between the troposphere and stratosphere?
18-2 What Are the Major Outdoor Air Pollution Problems?
Question 2
2.
What is air pollution?
Question 3
3.
Distinguish between primary pollutants and secondary pollutants.
Question 4
4.
List the major outdoor air pollutants and their harmful effects.
Question 5
5.
Distinguish between industrial smog and photochemical smog in terms of their chemical composition and formation.
Question 6
6.
List and briefly describe 5 natural factors that help to reduce outdoor air pollution and 6 natural factors that help to worsen it.
Question 7
7.
What is a temperature inversion and how can it affect outdoor air pollution levels?
18-3 What is Acid Deposition and Why Is It a Problem?
Question 8
8.
Question 9
9.
What is acid deposition and how does it form?
Question 10
10.
What are its major environmental impacts on lakes, forests, human-built structures, and human health?
Question 11
11.
List 3 major ways to reduce acid deposition.
18-4 What Are the Major Indoor Air Pollution Problems?
Question 12
12.
What is the major indoor air pollutant in many less-developed countries?
Question 13
13.
What are the 3 indoor air pollutants in the U.S.? Give 3 reasons why they present a serious threat to human health.
Question 14
14.
Explain why radon-222 is an indoor air pollution threat, how and where it occurs, and what can be done about it.
18-5 What Are the Health Effects of Air Pollution?
Question 15
15.
Describe the human body’s defenses against air pollution, how they can be overwhelmed, and the illnesses that can result.
Question 16
16.
Approximately how many people die prematurely from air pollution each year in the world and in the U.S.? What percentage of these deaths are caused by indoor air pollution?
18-6 How Should We Deal with Air Pollution?
Question 17
17.
Summarize the U.S. air pollution laws and how they have worked to reduce air pollution.
Question 18
18.
List the advantages and disadvantages of using an emissions trading program to control pollution.
Question 19
19.
Summarize the major ways to reduce emissions from power plants and motor vehicles.
Question 20
20.
What are 4 ways to reduce indoor air pollution?
Question 21
21.
Why is preventing air pollution more important than controlling it?
18-7 How Have We Depleted Ozone in the Stratosphere and What Can We Do about It?
Question 22
22.
How have human activities depleted ozone in the stratosphere? List 5 harmful effects of such depletion.
Question 23
23.
What has the world done to reduce the threat of ozone depletion in the stratosphere? How might projected climate change undermine this progress?