5 Written Questions

1. The settling of acidic or acid-forming pollutants from the atmosphere onto earth's surface.
2. a highly reactive, foul smelling reddish brown gas that contributes to smog and acid precipitation.
3. Technology to chemically treat gas produced in combustion to remove hazardous components and neutralize acidic gases, turning them into water and aslt, in order to reduce smokestack emissions
4. extends 11-50 km above sea level, level above troposphere and below mesosphere
5. the ratio of water vapor a given volume of air contains at a given temperature

5 Matching Questions

1. Volative Organic compunds (VOCs)
2. secondary pollutants
3. convective circulation
4. thermal inversion
5. Chlorofluorcarbons (CFC's)

1. a a departure from the normal temperature distribution in the atmosphere, in which a pocket of relavitevly cold air occurs near the ground, with warmer air above it.
2. b One of the group of human made organic compunds derived from simple hydrocarbons, in which hydrogen atoms are replayed by chlorine, bromine, or flourine. deplete the ozone layer
3. c A circular current driven by temperature differences, in the air warm air rises into regiona of lower atmospheric pressure, where it expands and cools and then descends and becomes denser.
4. d carbon-containing chemical used in a =nd emitted by vehicle engines and a wide cariety of solvents and industrial processes, as well as by many household chemical and consumer items.
5. e Harmful substances produced when primary pollutants interact or react with contituents of the atmosphere

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a colorless, odorless gas produced primarily by the imcomplete combustion of fuel. Mostly from cars and engines.
   1. nitrogen dioxide
   2. carbon monoxide
   3. Sulfur dioxide
   4. troposphere
2. pollutants emitted into the troposphere in a from that can be directly harmful or that can react to form harmful substances
   1. warm front
   2. Radon
   3. secondary pollutants
   4. primary pollutants
3. a colorless gas, has a pungent odor. Usually results from combustion of coal.
   1. Sulfur dioxide
   2. Climate
   3. nitrogen dioxide
   4. carbon monoxide
4. The apparent deflection of north-south air currents to a partly east-west direction, caused by the faster spin if regions near the equator than of regions near the poles as a result of earth's rotation
   1. Coriolis effect
   2. warm front
   3. Climate
   4. cold front
5. The bounsry along which a mass of warmer, moister air replaces a mass of colder, drier air.
   1. Weather
   2. Radon
   3. warm front
   4. cold front

5 True/False Questions

1. troposphere → extends 11-50 km above sea level, level above troposphere and below mesosphere

   True        False

2. Weather → a heavy metal that enters the atmosphere as a particular pollutant. Help improve engim=nge preformance.

   True        False

3. Particulate matter → composed of solid or liquid particles small enough to be suspended in the atmosphere.

   True        False

4. atmospheric pressure → mearures the force per unit area produced by a column of air

   True        False

5. Tropospheric ozone → the bottomost layer, blankets earths surface and provides us the air we need to live

   True        False