| A | B |
|---|
| Air Pollution | Gunk in the air |
| Primary Pollutant | Pollution put into the air by humans |
| Secondary Pollutants | Formed when primary pollutant comes into contact with other primary pollutants |
| Thermal inversion | Air above is warmer than the air below |
| Smog | Pollution that hangs over urban areas and reduces visibility |
| Sick building syndrome | buildings are tightly sealed to keep out the heat |
| Acid Rain | Highly acidic rain that results from the burning of fossil fules |
| Acid shock | sudden infux of acidic water |
| Radon | Invisible, tasteless, and odorless gas that produces naturally |
| Asbestos | name given to a comb of several fibers that contain silicon |
| Indoor air pollution | Strong odors from from the house |
| Emphysema and lung cancer | When the air sacs in the lung loss their elasticity and can no longer push air ort of the lungs |
| Chronic Bronchitis and asthma | Attacks in the lungs |
| Carbon monoxide | is and odorless, colorless, poisonous gass. It is produce by the incomplete burning of fossil fules |
| Nitorgen oxides | When combustion teperatures exceed 538 degrees nirogen and oxygen particles in the air combine to form nitrogen oxides |
| Sulfur dioxide | is produced by chemical interactions between sulfur and oxygen |
| Volatice organic compounds | V.O.C.'s |
| Particulates | Particlates consist of smoke, ash, soot, dust ,lead, and other particles form burning fuel |
| WWF | World Wildlife Federation |
| EPA | Envioronmental Protection Agency |
| Acid Rain | Rain that is Acidic |
| Ph scale | Scale to tell what the acid level or basic level of a liquid |
| Catalyst | speeds up a reaction |
| Lung | Used to breath |
| Enzyme | A Protein |
