Questions on Video "Search for Clean Air" Walter Cronkite

1. What is spoiled on Mt. Mitchell, highest peak in North Carolina?

2. What do we spew into our United States air each year?

3. What problems are caused by air pollution?

4. What is the question Walter Cronkite poses regarding air pollution?

5. Dr. Richardson of U. of Vermont said that in 1506, Queen Eleanor, Queen of England (King Edward's wife) had a sickness related to air pollution. What was this sickness?

6. What ordinance did King Edward pass to help his wife regarding this sickness?

7. How many people died in Donora Pennsylvania in 1948.

8. How many people died in the London Smog of 1952.

9. How many tons of SO₂, Organic compounds, and NOx were emitted in the US in 1981.

10. What chemical element in the soil does acid rain release?

11. In the late 1970s what was happening to the trees in Vermont?

12. What are the air pollutants which are toxic to plants?

13. What is cause of the decline of the NE red spruce in the NE United States?

14. What is the cause of the decline of ponderosa pines and Jeffery pines near Los Angeles?

15. What can be used to treat the lakes which are too acid?

16. How much has visibility declined during the time 1975-1983 in Eastern US?

17. What is average visibility in the Smokey Mountains?

http://www2.nature.nps.gov/air/webcams/parks/grsmcam/grsmcam.cfm

18. What is average visibility distance in Shenandoah Nat. Park?

http://www.nps.gov/shen/naturescience/airquality.htm

http://epa.gov/air/visibility/parks/shenan.html

19. What is the natural unpolluted visibility in the Shenandoah Nat. Park.

20. Over a 11 year time period, how great an increase in the stream water acidity times have streams in park become more acid?

21. What is worst measured pH in the stream feeding water to the Cherokee Trout Farm.

22. How much greater is the infant mortality rate in the Czeck Republic compared to the United States?

23. How much extra payment is given to residents in the Czech city of Usti to account for the high air pollution they live in (death money or grave money).

24. What damages the brick and cement in the Czech city of Usti?

25. In North America, what type of people are admitted to the hospital during air pollution episodes?

26. What is the number of deaths per year in the US caused by particle air pollution?

27. Lung disease is caused by what ?

29. What kind of diseases do they measure in children breathing high levels of air pollution?

30. How is mortality related to particle air pollution concentrations?

31. What effects on humans have they seen for ozone air pollution?

32. What did the pathological study of lungs of young (14-25 years old) accident victims in Los Angeles show?

33. What is the most threatening type of lung disease?

34 What is likely playing a big role in this lung damage?

35. Who are chronically affected by air pollution?

36 What does exposure to air pollution during childhood imply that you will need to do during middle age?

37. What are two triggers for asthma attacks ?

38. Are the US Government air quality standards protecting the people from health effects?

39. What is the American Lung Association doing regarding US Air Quality Standards?

40. What did the electric utility Southern Cal Edison do to its customers to convince them to reduce air pollution?

http://www.sce.com/PowerandEnvironment/BetteringEnergyEfficiencyPowerSources/

41. What is Cogentrix using the control particle emissions from their power plants?

42. How is Cogentrix controlling the formation of NOx in their power plants?

43. What did Rep. Waxman of Calif. say is the major emission source of air pollution in the United States.

44. What probably caused the trees to die on Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina.

http://main.nc.us/BMCP/mitchell.html