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23 Cards in this Set
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Pollution |
contamination of soil, water, or the contamination of soil, water or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances. |
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Leaded Gasoline |
Thomas Midgley was the inventor of this, took place in 1921, cause lead poisoning, used to prevent engine knocking |
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident |
Occurred in 1986, the explosion of a nuclear power plant; it was built wrong- poorly trained employee didn't do their job |
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Bhopal |
Occurred in 1984, an accident at pesticide plant which released many poisonous gases, 15000 people died |
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Flint Michigan |
Corrupted pipes caused people to get ill, (iron and lead in water pipes), occurred in 2014, switched water supply from Lake Huron to Flint River which had high amounts of Iron and Lead |
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Agent Orange |
Occurred from 1961-1971, "Operation Ranch Hand," sprayed various herbicides over Vietnam, this was the most deadly, caused illnesses from generations to generations |
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Linfen, China |
Occurred in 1978, most polluted city, began to develop coal mining industry as well as coal burning, pollution diffused into city due to coal burning |
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Space Trash |
Started when we first started sending satellites to space, man made orbital debree, , big problem in causing space pollution-NASA |
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atmosphere |
Layers of gases surrounding Earth's surface, possesses distinct characteristics- temperature, air pressure, water vapor |
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Average chemical composition of atmosphere |
78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% other(Carbon dioxide, Ozone, and water vapor) |
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Other matter |
Water vapor and particulate matter |
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Natural particulate matter |
Volcanic dust, sea salt, and pollen are all examples of... |
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Artificial particulate matter |
Smoke caused by the burning of fossil fuels is an example of... |
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Cleaning atmosphere |
Precipitation rains down particulate matter and cleans the air |
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Early atmosphere |
Outgassing of volcanoes, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and nitrogen are released, Early life changed composition of the air |
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Modern Atmosphere |
Photosynthesis of Cyanobacteria produced our first oxygen molecule |
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Troposphere |
Almost all water vapor is here, weather happens here, temperature trends colder |
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Stratosphere |
Airplanes fly on the lower part, contains 90% of all ozone in the atmosphere, ozone absorbs UV and converts it to heat energy, warns this layer, weather balloons pop because there is less air pressure (less air) |
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Mesosphere |
Meso-middle altitude, coldest temperatures are at the top |
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Thermosphere |
Thermos-heat, hottest layer in the atmosphere-molecules absorb sun's energy and convert it to heat |
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Interface |
Means boundary between two regions, atmospheric are called pauses, the pauses mark the altitude at which the temp trend reverses |
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Tropopause |
Interface between troposphere and stratosphere |
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Temperature Trend |
Getting colder or warmer |
