Why does chemistry play a central role in our study of environmental issues? Provide an example from the text that illustrates how chemistry helps solve environmental problems

What will be an ideal response?


Chemistry is the fine structure of matter and so is crucial to understanding how gases such as carbon dioxide and methane contribute to global climate change, how pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitric oxides cause acid rain, and how pesticides and other artificial compounds we release into the environment affect the health of wildlife and people. Chemistry is central in understanding water pollution and sewage treatment, atmospheric ozone depletion, hazardous waste and its disposal, and energy issues. An understanding of chemistry is also crucial to developing solutions to environmental problems, such as acid rain.

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

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A. closer economic ties with the former Asian Tiger countries. B. a rise in the global demand for cashmere. C. the extraction and sale of valuable minerals. D. its shift from a nomadic to a settled culture.

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Ediacaran faunal fossils are rare because they ____

a. existed for a short time b. lived in a narrow geographic range c. were soft-bodied animals d. are the oldest animal fossils e. were oxidized in the Great Oxygenation event

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Thick sections of evaporite deposits that were formed in basins surrounded by large reef

complexes are common in the Tippecanoe sequence. Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Which of the following is a form of atmospheric energy?

a. kinetic energy b. heat c. potential energy d. All of these choices.

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