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Atmospheric Pollution Quiz

Test your knowledge on atmospheric pollution and its various aspects with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz consists of 24 multiple-choice questions that cover a range of topics from greenhouse gases to local weather patterns.

Features of the quiz:

In-depth questions on climate science
Challenge your understanding of environmental issues
Great for students, researchers, and enthusiasts

24 Questions6 MinutesCreated by ExploringEarth12

An end-of-pipe measure is e.g.

Using more efficient technologies

Implementing an emission trading scheme

Filter flue gases

Technological improvements in the process

Desulfurization of oil

Which are not typical effects of mountain valleys or basins?

Stratospheric ozone concentration

Is falling in midlatitudes in winter, constant in summer

Is falling worldwide

Is falling in equatorial regions in winter

Is falling in midlatitudes, and strongly falling over Antarctica

In the climate debate tipping points are understood to describe

Points at which the planet becomes uninhabitable

Points beyond which positive feedback mechanisms can no longer be contained by humans

Points of time in policy debate when decisive steps are taken

Geographical locations where decisive climate process

What is NOT true of radioactive decay?

Is the only way to deplete radio nuclei

Disappears after 5 half-life times

Depends only on the radio nuclide

Is independent of external influences

Can vary over several orders of magnitude

Which of the following issues is not a mesoscale pollution problem?

The IPAT equation or Kaya Identitiy can be used to explain

The impact of population, air pollution and technology on environmental degradation

The impact of green house gas emissions on climate

The extent to which ecological boundaries have been crossed

The impact of world population, affluence and technology on green house gas emissions

The impact of lifestyles on environmental quality and tipping points

What was the original definition of smog?

A combination of smoke and fog

High concentrations of photo chemicals

Cigarette smoke

High ozone concentrations

Dispersion models typically consist of 3 modules:

Transport module, immission module, impact module

Meteorology Module, Chemistry Module, Deposition module

Emission module, Transmission module, Immission module

Meteorology Module, Chemistry Module, and Transport Module

Meteorology Module, Transport Module and Deposition Module

Trajectories are an important part of which kind of dispersion models?

Near the earths surface, temperature increases with height

When wind speed increases with height

When wind speed is low and the radiation balance at the surface is negative

Because the distance from sun decreases

When atmospheric radiation exceeds terrestrial radiation

When warm air rises from heated surfaces

When an inversion breaks up

Chronic damage caused by air pollution can be prevented

Standards expressed in high percentiles

Limiting maximum concentration

Short term standards, e.g. Hourly means

Long term standards, e.g. Yearly means

In an idealised valley the following local circulations are to be expected in fair weather on the early afternoon

In order for a cloud to rain, cloud droplets must grow

Through coagulation and coalescence with other droplets

Through freezing and melting

And reach a size 100 times that a small cloud droplet

Through transpiration and evaporation

Through compression and density increase

Through condensation and diffusion

Which of the following radiative processes leads to energy conversion?

Reflexion

Absorption

Refraction

Diffusion

Concentrations caused at a specific point by a continuous point source vary strongly

The troposphere

Is the bottom layer of the atmosphere in which temperature decreases with height

Is the lower part of the planetary boundary layer

Is the lower part of the stratosphere and characterized by temperature increase with height

Consists of the planetary boundary layer and the turbulent surface layer

Boundaries of the global ecological system seem to habe been exceeded regarding

Climate change, nitrogen cycle and phosphorous cycle

Nitrogen cycle, phophorous cycle and biodiversity loss

Ocean acidification, nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss

Climate change, nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss

Climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss

The following is NOT correct regarding albedo

Averaged over the whole globe, albedo is about 5 %

Albedo is higher for snow than for bitumen

Albedo is reflectivity averaged over all wavelengths

Albedo is the ration of reflected to incoming radiation

Albedo increases with the temperature of the reflecting body

The atmosphere is characterised by

About 80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and 1% argon content

About 0,03 CO2 and 0,05 water vapour content

About 80% oxygen and 20% hydrogen content near the surface

Rapid increase of CO2 and decrease of oxygen concentrations

Good mixing of gases up to 120 km height

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