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SELF QUIZ: AIR RESOURCES
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Incorporates Dr. Annie Leonard's lecture material.
  1. What are the four main gases in air and their percentages?
  2. Differentiate between stationary and mobile sources of air pollution.
  3. Differentiate between primary and secondary pollutants.
  4. Differentiate between acute and chronic health effects of air pollution.
  5. What are the three main factors affecting the effects of air pollution?
  6. Be familiar with the human respiratory system and how pollutants can impact lung function, specifically cilia lining airways and gas exchange at alveoli.
  7. What Act contains most of the laws and regulations concerning air pollution?
  8. List the six criteria air pollutants. What are their main sources and effects?
  9. What is the difference in the regulation of criteria vs noncriteria air pollutants?
  10. What is a temperature inversion?
  11. What causes temperature inversions?
  12. What are the effects of temperature inversions?