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Air Pollution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Vehicles
        
        Diesel
        
        "Major contributor in urban areas"
      - Power Stations
      - Heating
    - - Irritate and inflame airways
        
        "Flare-up of asthma or COPD"
      - Children or older people can develop respiration infection
        
        React more to allergens
  - - - Irritaion in airways of both healthy and with lung conditions
      - Discomfort when you breath
      - Reduces lung capacity
      - Trigger asthma
      - More risk of illness like pneumonia and bronchitis
  - - - Industry
      - Building Work
      - Diesel/ Petrol Engines
      - Friction from breaks and tyres
      - Dust
    - - Volcano
      - Sea Spray
      - Pollen
      - Soil
      - Can form when gases like sulphur and nitrogen combine in the air creating a chemical reaction - BLF
    - - Can get into bloodstream
        
        Carries toxic chemicals
        
        Cancer
      - Fine particles can reach into breathing sacs of your lungs
      - Irritation in nose and throat
        
        More severe symptoms with people who has asthma
        
        More people with lung and heart conditions in hospitals
      - Early deaths for people with lung and heart disease
      - Long-term exposure leads to development of lung cancer and possibly asthma
  - - - Electric Industries that burn fossil fuels
      - Petrol Refineries
      - Cement Manufacturing
      - SO2 "can travel long distances and contributes to the formation of ozone"
    - - Irritation to rose, throat and lungs
      - Coughing (more mucus) and tightness to chest
      - Reduction to airway flow of air to lungs and inflames airway
      - More prone to chest infection
- - - - Can be carried from hundreds of miles
    - - Damage Trees
      - Soils and water bodies acidify
        
        "unsuitable for wildlife"
      - "Speeds decay of buildings, statues, and sculptures that are part of national heritage."
      - "Damages lakes, ponds, rivers, and soils"
        
        Damges wildlife and forests
  - - - "Ozone forms a layer that protects life on the earth from the sun's UV rays"
        
        Ozone depletion (the good ozone) is being destroyed by man man-made chemicals
        
        Chlorofluorocarbons
        
        Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
        
        Halons
        
        These substances were used and some are still being used in:
        
        Coolants
        
        Foaming agents
        
        Fire Extinguishers
        
        Solvents
        
        Pesticides
        
        Aerosol Propellants
    - - Skin Cancer
      - Cataracts
      - Impaired Immune System
      - Damage sensitive crops
        
        Reduces crop yields
        
        Reduces growth and survivability of tree seedings
        
        Plants more countable to disease, pest, and environmental stress
        
        Can also cause acid rain
  - - - This is due to production of large amounts of the greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane
        
        Causing Earth's temperature to rise leading to global warming
        
        Extreme Weather
        
        Wild Fires
        
        Droughts
        
        Lost Crops
        
        Water Shortages
        
        Ice melting
        
        Endangered Wildlife
        
        Changing Ecosystems