[MOD9 - COMMED] Air Pollution_2028

True or False: As of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Air Pollution Reports in 2016, there were more deaths attributable to outdoor air than indoor air pollution.

FALSE

3.8 million deaths per year attributable to outdoor air pollution. 4.2 million deaths per year from exposure to indoor air pollution

What were the most polluted cities according to the 2016 update of WHO on the Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database?

Niger, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia

It is the source of air pollutants that is being emitted through the air wherein the transport workers, traffic enforcers, and general population are the ones exposed

Mobile Area

Coal and Crude Oil Combustion and Volcanic Eruptions result to this type of pollutant

Sulfur Dioxide

It is the sum of all solid and liquid particles that are suspended in air, many of which are hazardous

Particular Matter Pollutant

Two common components of acid rain

Nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide

Caused by cigarette smoking, use of certain construction materials, cleaning products and home furnishings, poorly maintained fires, stoves and heaters

Indoor Air Pollution

Type of pollution that comes from a natural and anthropogenic source

Outdoor Air Pollution

Reports the daily air quality

Air Quality Index

Is a situation where outdoor atmosphere contains concentration of materials that are harmful to people or environment

Air Pollution

8.4% of the total burden of disease in low and middle-income countries is due to?

Indoor smoke from use of solid fuels: 3.7%

Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene: 3.2%

Urban air pollution: 1.5%

Use precipitators or filter bag houses to remove particulates from outflow

Factories & Power Plants

What are the sources for particulate matter pollutants?

Fires, Construction sites, Unpaved roads, Reactions between gasseous chemicals emitted by power plants

Harmful substances which are emitted directly into the atmosphere

Primary Pollutants

Harmful substances which form as a result of chemical reactions in the atmosphere

Secondary Pollutants

What is the percentage of Nitrogen in the atmosphere?

78%

What is the percentage of Oxygen in the atmosphere?

21%

What is the major contributor of carbon monoxide in air pollution?

Automobile Emissions

What is the specific pollutant from coal, crude oil combustion, and volcanic eruptions?

Sulfur Dioxide

What is the specific cific pollutant from automobile emissions, electricity generation, and industrial processes?

Nitrogen Oxide

What type of pollutant is acid rain considered?

Secondary Pollutant

What type of pollutant is sulfur dioxide considered?

Primary Pollutant

Gas pollutants come mainly from what?

Burning fossil fuels

What do you call the sum of all solid and liquid particles that are suspended in air which may be hazardous?

Particulate Matter Pollutant

A colorless gas that binds in the RBCs instead of oxygen, and deprives the major organs of oxygen

Carbon monoxide

A device in that reduces harmful emissions by converting toxic gases like carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide

Catalytic Converters

According to the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999, it is any any alteration of the physical, chemical and biological properties of the atmospheric air, or any discharge thereto of any liquid, gaseous or solid substances that will create or render the air resources of the country harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare or which will adversely affect their utilization of domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other legitimate purpose

Air Pollution

What type of air pollution is caused by volcanoes, fires, and industry?

Outdoor Air Pollution

What source of air pollution comes from power plants, automobiles, and fumes from burning wood, stoves, and fireplaces?

Human/Man-made Sources of Air Pollution

What source of air pollution comes from smoke that comes from wildfires, volcanic eruptions, methane emissions, and dust?

Natural Sources of Air Pollution

Automobile emissions are sources of carbon monoxide.

TRUE

Ozone pollutants come from fires, construction sites, unpaved roads, and reactions between gaseous chemicals emitted by power plant.

FALSE (Correct answer: Particulate matter pollutants)

What are the alternatives for coal for air pollution abatement and control?

Use low-sulfur coal, Coal cleaning

What is an an essential factor of life for respiration?

Clean air

Destructive phenomena (e.g. acid rain, global warming, etc.) may occur due to air pollution.

TRUE

What Philippine Law states the acceleration of exploration & dev't of renewable energy, its increase in utilization and encouragement of its dev't and use

RA 9513 of 2008 (Renewable Energy Act)

All these are typical pollutants of indoor air pollution except

A) Formaldehyde

B) Nitrogen dioxide

C) Carbon dioxide

D) Benzene

C) Carbon dioxide (supposedly its Carbon monoxide)

Give me at least 2 conditions/diseases that are linked to indoor air pollution

Asthma and TB

Where do the emissions of indoor air located and what population groujp is mostly affected by it

Soil deposits; mostly children (via direct ingestion)

Release of Suilfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere can cause what phenomena

Acid rain

What Philippine law creates provisions for the cleanliness of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of atmospheric air to safeguard public health and different industries?

Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

What is the greatest gas component of the atmosphere?

Nitrogen

The severity of unfavorable health effects due to exposure to polluted air depends on what 3 factors?

Concentration of air pollutants, duration of exposure, individual health status

What are the 2 exposure pathways to air pollutants?

Mobile area, stationary indoor air

According to the WHO, in 2016, how many deaths were attributable to outdoor and indoor air pollution respectively?

Outdoor air pollution - 3.8 million deaths

Indoor air pollution - 4.2 million deaths

It is a colorless gas that binds in the RBCs instead of oxygen and deprives the major organs of oxygen and sometimes result in death

carbon monoxide

8.4% of the total burden of disease in low and middle income countries is due to: Indoor smoke from use of solid fuels:

a. ______ Unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene:

b. _____ Urban air pollution:

c.______

a. 3.7%

b. 3.2%

c. 1.5%

pollutants in aerosols are commonly made of:

particulate matter

what are the different composition of pollutant

a. gases

b. aerosols