Air Pollution and Noise Control Quiz

The meteorological elements that have the most direct and significant effects on the distribution of air pollutants are?

(solar radiation, wind speed and direction, precipitation and stability) Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 334 - Para 1, "Meteorology"

Which of the following is not a malodorous gas?

Carbon monoxide Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 315 - Para 5, "Aesthetic Climatic and Related Effects"

Particulates larger than 10 microns can penetrate easily into the respiratory tract. (True or False)

False Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 321 - Para1, "Manmade Sources"

The pitch of a sound is determined primarily by?

Frequency Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 370 - Para 1, "Frequency"

Bacteria and spores are considered natural sources of air pollution? (True/False)

True Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 321 - Para 6, "Natural Sources"

Stack samples must be collected at the same speed of flow that gases normally pass through the stack. (True or False)?

True Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 332 - Para 5, "Stack Sampling"

Which of the following are not major sources of sulfur dioxide pollution?

electrical substations Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 323 - Table 4.3, "Air Pollution According to Source and Type of Pollutant: United States, Selected Years 1970-1998

Which of the following inversions develops at night under conditions of relatively clear skies and very light winds?

frontal inversion Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 337 - Para 7, "Inversions"

When two pollutants are combined, the effects are greater than the sum of the individual effects. This is called

synergism Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 309 - Para 1

The first Federal standards for occupational exposure to noise were issued by?

the Department of Labor Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 384 - Para 5, "Federal Regulations"

Turbulence is the wind characteristic that is?

the most effective mechanism for the dispersion or dilution of a cloud or plume of pollutants

Animals are primarily affected by the fluorides in the air?

through ingesting vegetation Salvato, Environmental Engineering, 2005 5th ed. - Environmental Health and Safety, Pg. 315 - Para 2, "Effect on Animals"