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Chapter 12 Review

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What is Air Pollution?   show
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What is a Primary Pollutant?   show
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show Carbon Monoxide, sulfuroxides  
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show One that forems in the atmosphere by chemical reactions with primary air pollutants, natural components in the air, or both.  
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show Nitric Acids, smog  
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show When a primary pollutant comes into contact with other primary pollutants, or with naturally occurring substances such as water vapor, and a chemical reaction takes place.  
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What does the Clean Air Act do?   show
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What happens when automobile emissions react with oxygen gas and ultraviolet rays?   show
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show electric power plants.  
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show Activities such as construction and agriculture  
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show Scrubbers  
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show A machine that moves gasses through a spray of water that removes many pollutants.  
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What would cause the smallest increase in smog in an urban area?   show
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What does smog result from?   show
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Temperature inversions work to trap WHAT?   show
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show from reaching dangerous levels.  
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Particulates can form WHAT?   show
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show electricity production  
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Name the 3 effects of air pollution on human health:   show
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What is Sick-Building Syndrome?   show
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show Carbon Monoxide  
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show They both increase the risk of cancer  
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show Uranium  
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What is Uranium?   show
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Schools in the United States have spent over $40 million to remove WHAT?   show
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show VOC's  
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What does VOC stand for?   show
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Permanent deafness results from continuous or long-term exposure to sounds over HOW MANY decibels?   show
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show downward  
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The lower the pH number is, the more__________a substance is.   show
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The higher the pH number is, the more__________a substance is.   show
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Acid precipitation can be traced back to the burning of WHAT?   show
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show sulfur and nitrogen  
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Acid precipitation means that the pH of measurements of rainwater would be below WHAT?   show
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show They are dissolved and washed away.  
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When the acidic rainwater reaches lakes,__________is leaked into the lake causing toxic conditions.   show
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Sulfur dioxide in water vaper does what to the openings on the surfaces of plants?   show
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Because of acid precipitation falls__________, the problem of solving acid precipitation has been difficult, especially at the international level.   show
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show The Midwestern and Eastern US.  
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