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Chapter 12 – Air
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What is air pollution?
What is a primary pollutant?
Examples of primary pollutants.
What is a secondary pollutant?
Examples of secondary pollutants.
Where does most air pollution in urban areas come from?
What are volatile organic compounds?
What is a scrubber?
What is smog and how does it form?
What is a temperature inversion and what is the result of a temperature
inversion?
Short and long term effects of air pollution.
Major sources of indoor air pollution.
What is sick building syndrome?
What are ways to maintain good indoor air quality?
What is radon gas? Where does radon gas come from and what are its
effects?
What is asbestos? What is being done to older buildings?
What are the effects of breathing asbestos? What is asbestosis?
What are the effects of light pollution?
How can light be used more efficiently?
What does the pH scale measure? What pH is considered an acid, base
and neutral?
What is acid precipitation and how is it formed?
What pH level is precipitation considered acid precipitation?
What is acidification?
What toxin is released from the soil as the soil becomes more acidic?
How does acidification affect the soils and plants?
How does acidification affect aquatic ecosystems?