PrintThe questions below are your chance to test and practice your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. In other words, you should be able to answer the following questions if you know the material that was just covered! If you have problems with any of the items, feel free to post your question on the unit message board so your classmates, and/or your instructor, can help you out!
- What is the difference between primary and secondary pollutants?
- How can scientists extrapolate historical climate changes by analyzing ice cores?
- What is the greenhouse effect? Explain the difference between greenhouse effect and global warming? Which gases contribute to the greenhouse effect?
- Explain how ozone is formed at the ground level with the help of the basic reactions. Which end users of energy are responsible for the emissions of the compounds involved?
- Explain how the stratospheric ozone layer is being destroyed. Which sector is responsible for the emission of the gases that are responsible for this?
- What is acid rain? How is it formed? What are the effects of acid rain?
- List five steps that you, as an individual, can take to reduce potential global warming and explain how each of these steps will reduce the emissions.
- List 5 ways in which you, as an individual, can reduce gaseous emissions that contribute to acid rain.
- State the arguments that scientists who say that global warming is not due to burning of fossil fuels are making.
- What are the effects of ground level ozone?
- Briefly describe the methods by which information is gathered and used to show that the planet is warming up.