List five (5) major classes of air pollutants and three sources of these pollutants for each class.

What will be an ideal response?


Refer to Table 12-1 for examples which includecarbon oxides- industry, motor vehicles, forest firesnitrogen oxides- industry, motor vehicles, fertilizerssulfur oxides- coal burning, industries, volcanoessuspended particulates- tobacco smoke, forest fires, motor vehiclestoxics- dry cleaning chemicals, industry, building materials

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One of the reasons the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean caused so much devastation and death is

a. the lack of attention to dire predictions from emergency warning centers b. the fact that early detection systems indicated the tsunami was not very powerful c. the lack of buoys or gauges in place to signal the danger to human settlements d. more than one of these answers is correct e. this is the first tsunami in recent history, so they have not been considered a danger until this event

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