QUE STION 1
1. What pollutant enters homes from the soil under houses and can
accumulate concentrations which EPA estimates may responsible for to be
10% of all U.S. lung cancer deaths?
benzopyrene
carbon monoxide
radon
chlordane
paradichlorobenzene
QUE STION 2
1. Which of the following explains why the Midwest is not suffering as severe
damage from acid rain as are the northeastern states?
Midwest has few sources acid rain-forming pollutantsof
pH of rainfall in Midwest is significantly higher than that in the Northeast
soils in the Midwest have a higher buffering capacity than do those in the
Northeast
soils in the Midwest have a lower buffering capacity than do those in the
Northeast
Midwestern soils have lower concentrations of toxic metals to be leached
into watersheds
QUE STION 3
1. What pollution control strategy has actually worsened the acid rain problem?
stack gas scrubbers
fluidized bed combustion
tall stacks
catalytic converters
electrostatic precipitators
QUE STION 4
1.
What is “photochemical smog”?
the noxious mixture smoke and fog which the cause of is of England’s
notoriously bad weather
the hazy conditions seen certain mountain regions such Smoky Mt.in as
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National Park, produced by certain volatile hydrocarbons given off by
trees
a mixture many irritating chemicals formed when auto exhausts react of
with oxygen in sunlight
the mixture of pollutants which accumulate during a radiation inversion
and remain near the ground after sunlight disperses the inversion layer
a form of indoor air pollution which is produced when household
chemical fumes react upon exposure to incandescent lighting, forming
certain toxic by-products
QUE STION 5
1. The average pH of rainfall the eastern U.S. currently the range of: in is in
2.9–
3.5
4.0-4.5
