Air Pollution

• What is the composition of air?
• What is the difference between acute and chronic pollution effects?
• What are three factors that determine the severity of an air pollutant’s effects?
• What is a temperature inversion?
• How can temperature inversions be harmful?
• Why do we have smoke stacks?
• What is SPLONC?
• Why are VOCs in the atmosphere bad?
• What are the two types of smog?
• What can you do to reduce air pollution?

Water Pollution

• Four categories of ‘health disrupting’ pollutants
• What are endocrine disruptors? Why should we worry about them?
• What causes 80% of human disease worldwide?
• What are the four categories of ‘ecosystem disrupting’ pollutants?
• What is eutrophication? Why is it bad?
• What is a point source vs. a non-point source pollutant?
• What law does the EPA primarily use to regulate water quality?
• How can you combat non-point source water pollution?