1. What is AQI? What levels are there for air quality?
AQI is the air quality index. The levels are good, moderate, unhealthy for sensitive groups, unhealthy, very unhealthy, hazardous.
2. What is Ozone and why are children most at risk?
Ozone is a colorless unstable toxic gas with a pungent odor and powerful oxidizing properties, formed from oxygen by electrical discharges or ultraviolet light. Children are most at risk because they are active and outside during the day, and their bodies are
more sensitive.
3. How does air speed and wind affect the level of smog in the city? Explain.
The less air speed and wind there are, the higher the level of smog in the city, there is nothing to blow away the smog so all the smog stays in the city.
4. How does temperature affect the level of smog in the city? Explain.
Temperature affects the level of smog city because as temperature goes up, air quality
goes down.
5. Which type of emission has the greatest affect on air quality? Identify and explain why.
Cars and trucks have the greatest affect on air quality, because it reaches the point where it is about to reach the 'very unhealthy quality.
6. Would you expect there to be more smog on a cloudy day or a clear day? Explain.
I would expect more smog on cloudy days because without the sun it'll trap all of the pollutants
RESET the simulator and try to create the WORST conditions for smog in your city- you should be able to get the air quality index up to unhealthy levels- What are the readings for each of your variables to produce the nastiest city air? DiscussThe worst city conditions is high population, high temperature, no winds, no clouds, and lots of consumer products. With a bigger population means more pollution since the waste and use more. With no wind the pollutants stay and never leave and with the sun shining down the quality of the air gets worse.
AQI is the air quality index. The levels are good, moderate, unhealthy for sensitive groups, unhealthy, very unhealthy, hazardous.
2. What is Ozone and why are children most at risk?
Ozone is a colorless unstable toxic gas with a pungent odor and powerful oxidizing properties, formed from oxygen by electrical discharges or ultraviolet light. Children are most at risk because they are active and outside during the day, and their bodies are
more sensitive.
3. How does air speed and wind affect the level of smog in the city? Explain.
The less air speed and wind there are, the higher the level of smog in the city, there is nothing to blow away the smog so all the smog stays in the city.
4. How does temperature affect the level of smog in the city? Explain.
Temperature affects the level of smog city because as temperature goes up, air quality
goes down.
5. Which type of emission has the greatest affect on air quality? Identify and explain why.
Cars and trucks have the greatest affect on air quality, because it reaches the point where it is about to reach the 'very unhealthy quality.
6. Would you expect there to be more smog on a cloudy day or a clear day? Explain.
I would expect more smog on cloudy days because without the sun it'll trap all of the pollutants
RESET the simulator and try to create the WORST conditions for smog in your city- you should be able to get the air quality index up to unhealthy levels- What are the readings for each of your variables to produce the nastiest city air? DiscussThe worst city conditions is high population, high temperature, no winds, no clouds, and lots of consumer products. With a bigger population means more pollution since the waste and use more. With no wind the pollutants stay and never leave and with the sun shining down the quality of the air gets worse.