Grades K-2 Air Pollution
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1. What color is clean air?
3. What kind of matter spreads
out to completely fill a
container like air in a balloon?
5. Which gas in the air do
people breathe out?
7. Which of these is moved by
air?
A. carbon dioxide
B. oxygen
A. a windmill
B. an electric fan
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5. Which of these are most
commonly burned to heat
homes?
7. What color in the Air Quality
Index means the air is
unhealthy for people with
asthma but ok for others?
A. clear
B. white
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1. Which gas is the most
common in the atmosphere?
A. N2 nitrogen
B. O2 oxygen
C. Ar argon
A. a gas
B. a liquid
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3. Which of these are most
commonly burned to make
electricity?
A. coal and natural gas
B. oxygen and natural gas
C. uranium and plutonium
A. natural gas, fuel oil or wood
B. uranium, plutonium or
oxygen
C. oxygen, hydrogen or coal
A. orange
B. purple
C. green
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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2. Where is air found?
4. Which gas in the air is the
one needed for breathing?
6. What does carbon dioxide
help plants do?
8. Which of these is filled with
air?
A. all over the surface of the
earth
B. on the moon
A. oxygen
B. helium
A. turn sunlight into food
B. turn food into energy
A. a bicycle tire
B. a windmill
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2. Before 1800, the amount of
carbon dioxide in the air was
about 0.03% . Now the amount
is 0.04%. If this trend
continues, how much carbon
dioxide might be in the air in
200 years?
4. What did the remains of
plants that lived and died in
swamps many millions of years
ago change into?
6. Which disease has the
symptoms of coughing,
wheezing, shortness of breath
and a tight feeling in the chest?
8. What is it when gases,
liquids or particles in the air are
in high enough concentrations
to harm living things or the
ecosystem?
A. coal
B. oil
C. diesel fuel
A. asthma
B. arthritis
C. diabetes
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
A. 0.05%
B. 0.04%
C. 0.03%
CORRECT: A, A
A. air pollution
B. water pollution
C. strong smells
CORRECT: A, A
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9. What color is smoke?
11. What does a burning
campfire give off besides heat
and light?
13. Where are you standing if
the wind blows from a campfire
to you?
15. What color is steam?
A. smoke
B. clean air
A. downwind
B. upwind
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11. When 100 pounds of wood
is burned, only 2 pounds is left
as ashes. The rest is changed
into water vapor and other
gases. How much do all these
gases weigh?
13. When a piece of wood
burns, it turns into a small pile
of ashes and a little water
vapor. The rest of the wood
changes into a gas. What gas
does it turn into?
A. 98 pounds
B. 2 pounds
C. 100 pounds
A. nitrogen (N2
B. carbon dioxide (CO2)
C. oxygen (O2)
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, B
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10. When a log burns, some of
it turns into ashes. What
happens to the rest?
12. If there is no wind blowing,
which way will the smoke from
a fire go?
14. Where can you sit by a
campfire to keep the smoke out
of your eyes and nose?
16. Where is the exhaust pipe
on a car or bus?
A. it turns into water vapor and
gases
B. it turns into soil
A. straight up
B. where the wind is blowing to
A. upwind
B. downwind
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12. What is the percentage of
Oxyeng in the atmosphere?
14. Which of these is most
commonly burned in the tank of
a car to make it move?
A. black, brown or gray
B. white
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9. If you had to live within five
miles of a power plant, where
would be the best place to
have your house to avoid air
pollution?
A. upwind from the power plant
B. downwind from the power
plant
C. perpendicular to the
prevailing winds
A. white
B. clear
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15. What did the remains of
organisms that lived and died
in oceans many millions of
yeare ago change into?
A. uranium
B. oil
C. coal
CORRECT: A, B
CORRECT: A, A
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10. What is it called when a
car, bus or truck leaves the
motor running even when it is
not moving?
A. idling
B. reving the engine
C. slowing down
CORRECT: A, A
A. at the back
B. at the front
A. 1%
B. 21%
C. 78%
A. uranium
B. gasoline
C. coal
CORRECT: A, B
16. What health problems does
smoke cause?
A. headache and dizzyness
B. trouble breathing and tight
feeling in chest
C. stomach upset and nausea
CORRECT: A, B
CORRECT: A, B
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17. What does clean air smell
like?
19. Which gas in the air is the
most common?
21. What does oxygen help
people, plants and animals do?
23. Which of these makes the
air move?
A. like smoke
B. nice
A. oxygen
B. nitrogen
A. turn sunlight into food
B. turn food into energy
A. a windmill
B. an electric fan
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17. How does air pollution
affect children?
19. When a car, truck or bus
burns gasoline, where do the
gases from burning come out?
21. What color are gases?
23. What is the percentage of
Carbon Dioxide in the air?
A. their brains don't work as
well
B. their lungs don't develop
properly
C. their muscles don't work as
well
A. the back windows
B. the exhaust pipe at the back
C. the grill at the front
A. they are all gray
B. it depends on the gas
C. they are all clear
A. 78%
B. 1%
C. .04%
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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18. What is air?
20. Which gas in the air do
plants use to make all their
body parts?
22. What is wind?
24. What is made by warm air
rising and cooler air flowing
into the empty space?
A. a mixture of solids
B. a mixture of gases
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18. What is the index used
daily to show how healthy the
air is in an area?
A. temperature
B. AQI - Air Quality Index
C. TRI - Toxics Release
Inventory
CORRECT: B, B
A. oxygen
B. carbon dioxide
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20. What is a place where
electricity is produced and
distributed to a large network of
users?
A. a charging station
B. a power plant
C. a solar roof
A. moving water
B. moving air
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22. What comes out the
exhaust pipe on a car or bus?
A. just water vapor
B. smoke and gases
C. just air
CORRECT: B, B
A. rain
B. wind
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24. When fossil fuels burn,
what is the most common gas
they produce?
A. oxygen (O2)
B. nitrogen (N2
C. carbon dioxide (CO2)
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, B
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25. How do the ashes from a
burned log compare to the log?
27. How can you tell which way
the wind is blowing?
29. Where are you standing if
the wind blows from you to the
campfire?
31. What is steam?
A. the ashes take up the same
space as the log
B. the ashes take up much less
space than the log
A. by watching which way the
water in a river flows
B. by watching which way the
trees and grass bend
A. downwind
B. upwind
A. raindrops
B. small drops of water in the
air
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31. Which sources of electricity
do not produce significant air
pollution?
27. Which disease causes
long-term difficulty with
breathing?
29. What is a kind of air
pollution is made of gases,
liquids and particles big
enough to see in the air?
A. colds
B. arthritis
C. asthma
A. PM 2.5
B. ozone
C. smoke
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
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26. How does your nose tell if
there is smoke in the air you
are breathing?
28. If the wind is blowing,
which way will the smoke from
a fire go?
30. What happens when you
breathe in too much smoke?
32. What is a mixture of
particles, drops of liquid and
gases?
A. it sees it
B. it smells it
A. where the wind is blowing
from
B. where the wind is blowing to
A. your stomach is upset and
you feel sick
B. your chest feels tight and it
is hard to breathe
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28. Which of these is most
likely to trigger an asthma
attack?
30. Where is air pollution
usually the worst?
25. Which of these is most
commonly burned in the tank of
a large truck or bus to make it
move?
A. wood
B. oxygen
C. diesel fuel
A. burning coal or oil
B. burning wood or agricultural
wastes
C. solar, wind and water
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
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26. Which of these are fossil
fuels?
A. shells from ancient ocean
animals
B. logs of wood
C. coal, oil and natural gas
CORRECT: B, C
A. fog
B. smoke
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A. drinking a glass of water
after exercising
B. fishing in a pond out in the
country
C. running when the air quality
is bad
CORRECT: B, C
A. in small towns
B. on farms
C. in big cities
32. What color is carbon
dioxide?
A. gray
B. brown
C. clear
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
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