Study

Air pollution

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  • Polluted rain that damages trees and plants
    acid rain
  • A medical condition where some people find it hard to breathe
    asthma
  • An example of a fossil fuel. A liquid obtained from petroleum. When it is burned, it causes air pollution
    petrol
  • The air around us
    atmosphere
  • Part of your body that helps you to breathe
    lungs
  • We do this naturally every few seconds, to get oxygen into our body
    breathe
  • NO2, and other particulates are examples of this
    pollutants
  • There are more than 3 million of them on the roads in Seoul
    cars
  • How we measure how clean or dirty the air in a particular area is
    air quality
  • Low grade fuel from petroleum that can cause a lot of pollution
    diesel
  • We can describe air that is full of pollutants as this
    contaminated
  • The part of a car that ejects the dirty waste
    exhaust
  • Tiny particles of dust, soot, and liquid in the air, which are too small to see
    particulates
  • A harmful chemical air pollutant. It gets into our air from the burning of fuel (from cars, trucks, power plants etc)
    Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
  • This happened in the UK in 1952. Many people died because of the air pollution
    smog
  • This helps our bodies fight infections
    immune system