| Air Blueprint 1. The layers of the atmosphere 2. SPLONCs & their effects 3. Tropospheric vs. stratospheric ozone 4. See #2 5. Radon contamination - causes, effects, prevention 6. CFCs & their effects 7. Sources of indoor air pollution, effects, prevention 8. Industrial smog - causes, effects 9 - 14. Know the causes, effects & the role they play in air pollution for the following: ozone, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, argon, water vapor, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, VOCs, carbon monoxide, lead 15. sources of greenhouse gases in US 16. Kyoto Protocol 17. Water expansion & global warming 18. Kyoto & Montreal Protocol 19 - 22. See #1 23. Greenhouse effect 24. Effects/causes of ozone loss 25. Effects of ozone troposphere 26. Effects of global climate change 27 - 28. Acid rain - causes, effects, solutions - why are some areas more vulnerable than others? 29. Thermal inversion - what causes it, effects 30. How to calculate global temperatures (past & present) 31. CAFE standards - what are they? What do they help? 32. See #26 33. List of greenhouse gases 34. List of ozone-destroying compounds 35. Temperature trends for the Earth (present & in Earth's history) 36. See #27 37. Ozone depletion in the poles 38. See #24 39. Primary vs. secondary pollutants 40. Albedo - which surfaces have the highest? which have the lowest? 41. Photochemical smog - what causes it? 42. How does ozone help to stabilize the stratosphere? 43. ODC's - sources & uses 44. Sick-building syndrome - what is it? what causes it? how to fix it 45. NAAQS & SPLONCs 46. See #7 47 - 50. Smog - industrial & photochemical - causes, effects, solutions |