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- 1. Multiple Choice
What do cars, power plants, and furnaces have in common?
They all burn gasoline
They all burn coal
They all burn wood
They all burn fossil fuels
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of these situations is commonly caused by acid rain?
People being poisoned by drinking water
Fish and birds in freshwater habitats dying off
People receiving acid burns on their skin
Whales and dolphins dying off in the oceans
- 3. Multiple Choice
The ozone layer blocks deleterious UV radiation. What does "deleterious" mean?
Life-sustaining
Harmful
Pleasant
Foul-smelling
- 4. Multiple Choice
What can you infer from the fact that smog mainly affects cities?
Air pollution is most serious in areas with many homes, factories, and offices
Air pollution never affects rural areas
Animals don’t cause any air pollution
Cities attract air pollution because they extend so high in the atmosphere
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is one difference between smog and acid rain?
Smog makes it difficult to breathe; acid rain wipes out natural habitats
Smog is caused by burning fossil fuels; acid rain is caused by cow burps
Scientists agree that smog is caused by humans, but disagree over the cause of acid rain
Smog only affects cities; acid rain only affects rural areas
- 6. Multiple Choice
Changes the pH of water, making it harmful to living things
carbon dioxide
acid rain
ozone layer
smog
- 7. Multiple Choice
Gas released by the burning of fossil fuels
carbon dioxide
acid rain
ozone layer
smog
- 8. Multiple Choice
Protects the planet's surface from harmful solar radiation
carbon dioxide
acid rain
ozone layer
smog
- 9. Multiple Choice
A mixture of smoke and fog that forms over cities
carbon dioxide
acid rain
ozone layer
smog
- 10. Multiple Choice
pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single, specific site
carbon dioxide
nonpoint source pollution
ozone layer
point source pollution
- 11. Multiple Choice
Gases in Earth's atmosphere that trap heat near the surface
carbon dioxide
greenhouse gasses
ozone layer
point source pollution
- 12. Multiple Choice
The thinning of the ozone layer is caused by__________
carbon dioxide
carbon monoxide
chloroflourocarbon
Burning of fossil fuels
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which substance is not an air pollutant?
carbon monoxide
nitrogen
particulate matter
sulfur dioxide
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which gases combine with water to form acid rain?
radon and carbon oxides
ozone and carbon monoxide
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides
car emissions and ozone
- 15. Multiple Choice
the contamination of the atmosphere by the introduction of pollutants from human and natural sources
air pollution
smog
acid deposition
climate change
- 16. Multiple Choice
What is one example of natural source pollution?
Human/Environmental Interaction
Industrial Exhaust
Chlorine and Ammonia
Forest Fires
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these problems can be caused by air pollution?
Respiratory and Heart problems
Reduced food sources for humansIncreased disease for humansDecrease in global temperatures - 18. Multiple Choice
What do greenhouse gases do?
Make the sky blue
Trap heat inside our atmosphere
Keep out sunlight
Keep plants growing
- 19. Multiple Choice
We can reduce air pollution by:
Car pool and walk/bike more
Limit factories burning fossil fuels
Use more renewable energy sources
All of the above
- 20. Multiple Choice
The ozone hole in the upper atmosphere results primarily from
automobile exhaust
carbon dioxide pollution
CFC pollution
all of the above
- 21. Multiple Choice
What does CFC stand for?
Carbon Four Chemicals
Chlorofluorocarbons
Chinese Fossil Chemicals
It does not stand for anything
- 22. Multiple Choice
When the Ozone Layer loses Ozone what happens to organisms on the earth's surface?
They are exposed to Smog
Nothing happens
They are exposed to Acid Rain
They are exposed to Ultraviolet B Radiation
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