GEOG 2050 Chapter : Variable Atmospheric Components
Document Summary
Natural pollutant: volcanoes, forest fires, plants, decaying plants, ocean, soil. Natural factors: wind: gather and move pollutants. Anthropogenic pollutants: climate change due to humans: primary pollutants: directly harmful, secondary pollutants: form when primary pollutants interact or react with other elements in the atmosphere, carbon monoxide: don"t know its there. Fall asleep and die before you know: nitrogen oxides: red brown choking gas, sulfur oxides: smells like rotten eggs, photochemical smog: sunlight interacts with something that comes out of cars tail pipe, volatile organic: ozone formation.
