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AP Environmental Sci
AP Environmental Science Vocabulary Data, etc.
| Acid Rain | rain made acid by pollutants, particularly oxides of sulfur and nitrogen |
| Air Quality Standards | one way some countries try to control air pollution |
| atmospheric inversion | warmer air is found above cooler air |
| Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 | regulations by U.S> Congress that addresses acid rain, toxic emissions, ozone depletion, and automobile exhaust, |
| what did the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 do? | established limits on maximum permissible emissions of sulfur dioxide from utility companies |
| coal gasification | converts coal with high sulfur to a gas in order to remove the sulfur |
| lead | heavy metal found in car batteries and other industrial products, toxic and capable of causing environmental disruption |
| mobile sources | source of air pollutants that moves from place to place while emitting pollutants |
| photochemical smog | L.A. type of smog or brown air |
| sulfurous smog | London smog or gray air |
| primary pollutants | emitted directly into the air |
| scrubbing secondary pollutants | treating area with lime where pollutants were emitted due to a chemical reaction between multiple primary pollutants |
| smog | mixture of smoke and fog, unhealthy urban air |
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