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What are CFCs? Chlorofluorocarbons
This group of chemicals is responsible for the thinning of the ozone layer
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What is carbon monoxide?
This is the gas that cannot be removed from exhaust systems and has been known to kill people quickly.
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What is carbon dioxide?
This compound creates the 50% of gases responsible for air pollution.
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What is habitat?
This is the name of the area or environment where an organism normally lives.
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What is radon?
This can come into the home if built over a radioactive source.
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What is the ozone layer?
This is the name of the compound that filters out UV rays from the sun.
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What is the catalytic converter?
This is the tool applied to exhaust systems to remove nitrous oxides from exhaust.
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What is the greenhouse effect?
This is the name of the heat buildup from sunlight passing through a clear object.
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What is asbestos?
This was used in early home construction and engineering of cars' brakes and clutches and its damaging to the lungs.
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What are UV rays?
As a part of the sun, these are what can cause skin damage and other life threatening effects.
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What are hydrocarbons?
These gases are held in check by stack scrubbers in large industrial plants
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What is tetraethyl lead?
This compound, now removed from fuel, can be dangerous to catalytic converters.
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What is photosynthesis?
This natural plant process utilizes CO2.
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What are electrostatic precipitators?
These are devices that remove particulates from gases by passing over two electrically charged fields of opposite charge.
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What is sulfur dioxide?
This is the scientific name for acid rain.
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What is methane?
This is the gas that is emitted from naturally decaying plant materials.
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What is the chainsaw?
This household tool can cause 50 times more pollution per hp than a modern truck.
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What is respiration?
This natural plant process releases CO2.
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What are particulates?
These are solid compounds found in emissions that cause damage to people with asthma or emphysema.
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What is hydrogen and carbon?
These two elements are what are found in hydrocarbons.
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What is sulfur?
This pale yellow element combines with oxygen and moisture to create acid rain.
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What is 2 hours?
This is the time period that when running a chainsaw can equal the hydrocarbon released from a car driving coast to coast in the US.
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What is air?
This colorless, odorless, tasteless gas should consist of 78% N and 21% O.
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What is 100 years?
This is the time period that CFCs last in the atmosphere before breaking down.
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What is chlorine, fluorine, and carbon?
These are the three main elements found in CFCs.
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