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Air Pollution (Effects (make healthy people sick, make sick people worse,…
Air Pollution
Effects
make healthy people sick
make sick people worse
make our eyes water
make our throat feel dry
permanently damage our lungs
even cause cancer
global warming
Solutions
ride bikes or walk for transportation
can drive hybrid cars
insulate our homes
save energy to cool or heat homes
Causes
made by humans
car engines
power plants
factories
furnaces and stoves
fossil fuels
coal, gas, oil
release
particles of soot and dust
deadly gases
carbon dioxide
sulfur dioxide
natural sources
wildfires
volcanic eruptions
cow burps
contain methane
harmful gas
Results
smog
a mixture of smoke and fog
not good for us
contains ozone
high up in the atmosphere
protects Earth
from solar radiation
lower atmosphere
reacts with other molecules
produces deadly poisons
ozone layer
is destroyed
can't protect us from ultraviolet rays
acid rain
a mixture of pollutants and water droplets
a lower pH than normal rain
(soaks into ground/
bodies of water)
habitants
become
too acidic
organisms
are destroyed