GEO 110 Lab 2: Human Population and Air Pollution There are four parts to this lab. Part 1. Analyzing population pyramids (6 points) Objectives • To analyze population pyramids with three countries and the world and examine age structures and age types. A population pyramid is a graph of age structure to show the age distribution of the total population for males and females. The “PopulationPyramid.net” website (https://www.populationpyramid.net/) allows you to view Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100 by country, by region, and for the world. For this part of the exercise, • You will first VIEW and then DOWNLOAD and SAVE the following population pyramids for three countries and the world in Microsoft PowerPoint. Or you can simply copy from the website and paste it in PowerPoint.Then, answer the following questions below. • I strongly recommend that you RENAME them as you save them (e.g., “Niger 1950”, “Niger 2020”, “Niger 2050”, and so on.) This will make them easier to use for the next step. • Then use PowerPoint to construct a slide presentation that shows the three population pyramids for each country side by side on a single slide. You will have a total of 4 slides. If you size each pyramid to about 4” X 4”, they will fit nicely side by side. And your finished slide will look something like the one above (example: South Korea) Example: Your PowerPoint slide should look like this. • TITLE each slide with the country name 1 • • • • YEAR each year (1950, 2020, 2050) Age Type Young, Transitional, Mature For age type, see the figure below and read “Age Structure and Population Momentum” in pages 176-177 in the textbook. Watch the “Age Structure and Population Momentum” lecture video. Do this for each of United States, India, Niger, plus the WORLD as a whole, and you will have a PPT presentation with 4 slides, which you will turn in along with this worksheet. o United States → 1950, 2020,2050 o India → 1950, 2020, 2050 o Niger → 1950, 2020,2050 o WORLD → 1950, 2020, 2050 Answer the following 4 questions based on the age structure diagrams. Example: Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in South Korea in 2020. Answer: The age type in South Korea in 2020 is mature. There is a small percentage of under 19 years old and a large percentage from 45 to 59 age groups in the diagram. This means the population will decrease and elderly people will increase for the future which is a problem in terms of a shortage of working ages in South Korea. 1. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in India in 2020. 2. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in Niger in 2050. 3. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the United States in 2050. 2 4. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the world in 2020. Part 2. Calculating your Ecological Footprint (4 points) Objectives • To calculate your ecological footprint. • To understand what kinds of things contribute to your ecological footprint. • To learn what you can do to reduce it. Go to Global Footprint Network website at http://www.footprintcalculator.org/ • Click the “Take the First Step”. 5. Calculate your Ecological footprint by answering the questions as best you can. According to the website’s calculation, if everyone on the planet lived this lifestyle, how many “Earths” would we need? _____________________ • • Now, investigate ways to lower that footprint. Retake the quiz, entering in TWO changes that you think would significantly help lower the footprint. 6. What is your NEW ecological footprint? _____________________ (The number should be lower than your answer in Question 5.) 7. Identify the two changes you made in the table provided, and comment on the feasibility of making those changes (i.e. what would help you make those changes? What would hold you back?). Change Could you/would you do this now? What would help you make those changes (money, product availability, societal changes, business changes, etc.)? 3 Part 3. Exploring EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) Air Pollution website (5 points) Objectvies • To identify the formation and the harmful effects of six common air pollutans. Please go to the EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. (URL: https://www.epa.gov/criteria-air-pollutants) There are six common air pollutants. • Ground-level Ozone (O3) • Particulate Matter (PM) • Carbon Monoxide (CO) • Lead (Pb) • Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) • Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Write in your OWN words (Do not copy and paste from the website). Click “Ozone Pollution” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 8. What is “good” vs “bad” ozone? 9. How does ground-level ozone form? 10. What are the health effects of ozone? 4 Click “Particulate Matter” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 11. What is Particulate Matter (PM), and how does it get into the air? 12. What are PM10 and PM2.5? 13. What are the health and environmental effects of Particulate Matter (PM)? Which PM (PM10 and PM2.5) has the greatest risk to health? And Why? Click “Carbon Monoxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 14. What is Carbon Monoxide (CO)? 15. What are the harmful effects of CO? Click “Lead” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 16. How does lead get in the air? 17. What are the effects of lead on human health? 18. What are the effects of lead on ecosystems? Click “Sulfur Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 19. How does Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) get in the air? 20. What are the health effects of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)? Click “Nitrogen Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 21. How does Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) get in the air? 22. What are the environmental effects of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)? Part 4. Searching the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the United States and the World (5 points) (5 points) Objectvies • To learn how the Air Quality Index (AQI) works. • To recognize air pollution levels in some cities in the United States and World with AQI Maps. The U.S. AQI is EPA’s index for reporting air quality. 5 The AQI runs from 0 to 500. The higher the AQI value, the greater the level of air pollution and the greater the health concern. For example, an AQI value of 50 or below represents good air quality, while an AQI value over 300 represents hazardous air quality. Go to the “Air Quality Index (AQI) Basics” website for more information. 23. Based on the NOAA website (url: https://scijinks.gov/air-quality/), where does information about air quality come from? Write in your OWN words. 24. Go to the “Interactive Map of Air Quality” (url: https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/). Which states (and what parts of North America) have higher than 150 (unhealthy, very unhealthy and hazardous) in both Ozone and PM? Depending on time and days, you might not have any states. If so, write None. 25. Go to the “AirNow” website to check current AGI in 10 cities in the United States. (url:https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Nicholasville&state=KY&country=USA) City Lexington, KY Knoxville, TN Seattle, WA Portland, OR San Francisco, CA New York, NY Dallas, TX Tampa, FL Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA Pick one city in the U.S. (Write the city name) Particle (PM 2.5) Value Values Level of Concern 41 Good Values NA Ozone Value Level of Concern 6 26. Go to the “Air Pollution in World; Real-time Air Quality Index (AGI) Visual Map” (url: https://aqicn.org/map/world/) to explore and fill out Real-Time AGI for the 10 cities in the table below. City Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea Puram, Delhi, India Shanghai, China Beijing, China Jakarta Central, Indonesia Dhaka, Bangladesh Merced, México Mooca, São Paulo, Brazil North Vancouver Second Narrows, Canada Paris, France Diepkloof, City of Johannesburg, South Africa AGI Value (Numbers) 76 Level of Health Concern Moderate 7 GEO 110 Lab 2: Human Population and Air Pollution There are four parts to this lab. Part 1. Analyzing population pyramids (6 points) Objectives • To analyze population pyramids with three countries and the world and examine age structures and age types. A population pyramid is a graph of age structure to show the age distribution of the total population for males and females. The “PopulationPyramid.net” website (https://www.populationpyramid.net/) allows you to view Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100 by country, by region, and for the world. For this part of the exercise, • You will first VIEW and then DOWNLOAD and SAVE the following population pyramids for three countries and the world in Microsoft PowerPoint. Or you can simply copy from the website and paste it in PowerPoint.Then, answer the following questions below. • I strongly recommend that you RENAME them as you save them (e.g., “Niger 1950”, “Niger 2020”, “Niger 2050”, and so on.) This will make them easier to use for the next step. • Then use PowerPoint to construct a slide presentation that shows the three population pyramids for each country side by side on a single slide. You will have a total of 4 slides. If you size each pyramid to about 4” X 4”, they will fit nicely side by side. And your finished slide will look something like the one above (example: South Korea) Example: Your PowerPoint slide should look like this. • TITLE each slide with the country name 1 • • • • YEAR each year (1950, 2020, 2050) Age Type Young, Transitional, Mature For age type, see the figure below and read “Age Structure and Population Momentum” in pages 176-177 in the textbook. Watch the “Age Structure and Population Momentum” lecture video. Do this for each of United States, India, Niger, plus the WORLD as a whole, and you will have a PPT presentation with 4 slides, which you will turn in along with this worksheet. o United States → 1950, 2020,2050 o India → 1950, 2020, 2050 o Niger → 1950, 2020,2050 o WORLD → 1950, 2020, 2050 Answer the following 4 questions based on the age structure diagrams. Example: Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in South Korea in 2020. Answer: The age type in South Korea in 2020 is mature. There is a small percentage of under 19 years old and a large percentage from 45 to 59 age groups in the diagram. This means the population will decrease and elderly people will increase for the future which is a problem in terms of a shortage of working ages in South Korea. 1. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in India in 2020. 2. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in Niger in 2050. 3. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the United States in 2050. 2 4. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the world in 2020. Part 2. Calculating your Ecological Footprint (4 points) Objectives • To calculate your ecological footprint. • To understand what kinds of things contribute to your ecological footprint. • To learn what you can do to reduce it. Go to Global Footprint Network website at http://www.footprintcalculator.org/ • Click the “Take the First Step”. 5. Calculate your Ecological footprint by answering the questions as best you can. According to the website’s calculation, if everyone on the planet lived this lifestyle, how many “Earths” would we need? _____________________ • • Now, investigate ways to lower that footprint. Retake the quiz, entering in TWO changes that you think would significantly help lower the footprint. 6. What is your NEW ecological footprint? _____________________ (The number should be lower than your answer in Question 5.) 7. Identify the two changes you made in the table provided, and comment on the feasibility of making those changes (i.e. what would help you make those changes? What would hold you back?). Change Could you/would you do this now? What would help you make those changes (money, product availability, societal changes, business changes, etc.)? 3 Part 3. Exploring EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) Air Pollution website (5 points) Objectvies • To identify the formation and the harmful effects of six common air pollutans. Please go to the EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. (URL: https://www.epa.gov/criteria-air-pollutants) There are six common air pollutants. • Ground-level Ozone (O3) • Particulate Matter (PM) • Carbon Monoxide (CO) • Lead (Pb) • Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) • Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Write in your OWN words (Do not copy and paste from the website). Click “Ozone Pollution” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 8. What is “good” vs “bad” ozone? 9. How does ground-level ozone form? 10. What are the health effects of ozone? 4 Click “Particulate Matter” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 11. What is Particulate Matter (PM), and how does it get into the air? 12. What are PM10 and PM2.5? 13. What are the health and environmental effects of Particulate Matter (PM)? Which PM (PM10 and PM2.5) has the greatest risk to health? And Why? Click “Carbon Monoxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 14. What is Carbon Monoxide (CO)? 15. What are the harmful effects of CO? Click “Lead” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 16. How does lead get in the air? 17. What are the effects of lead on human health? 18. What are the effects of lead on ecosystems? Click “Sulfur Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 19. How does Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) get in the air? 20. What are the health effects of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)? Click “Nitrogen Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 21. How does Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) get in the air? 22. What are the environmental effects of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)? Part 4. Searching the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the United States and the World (5 points) (5 points) Objectvies • To learn how the Air Quality Index (AQI) works. • To recognize air pollution levels in some cities in the United States and World with AQI Maps. The U.S. AQI is EPA’s index for reporting air quality. 5 The AQI runs from 0 to 500. The higher the AQI value, the greater the level of air pollution and the greater the health concern. For example, an AQI value of 50 or below represents good air quality, while an AQI value over 300 represents hazardous air quality. Go to the “Air Quality Index (AQI) Basics” website for more information. 23. Based on the NOAA website (url: https://scijinks.gov/air-quality/), where does information about air quality come from? Write in your OWN words. 24. Go to the “Interactive Map of Air Quality” (url: https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/). Which states (and what parts of North America) have higher than 150 (unhealthy, very unhealthy and hazardous) in both Ozone and PM? Depending on time and days, you might not have any states. If so, write None. 25. Go to the “AirNow” website to check current AGI in 10 cities in the United States. (url:https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Nicholasville&state=KY&country=USA) City Lexington, KY Knoxville, TN Seattle, WA Portland, OR San Francisco, CA New York, NY Dallas, TX Tampa, FL Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA Pick one city in the U.S. (Write the city name) Particle (PM 2.5) Value Values Level of Concern 41 Good Values NA Ozone Value Level of Concern 6 26. Go to the “Air Pollution in World; Real-time Air Quality Index (AGI) Visual Map” (url: https://aqicn.org/map/world/) to explore and fill out Real-Time AGI for the 10 cities in the table below. City Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea Puram, Delhi, India Shanghai, China Beijing, China Jakarta Central, Indonesia Dhaka, Bangladesh Merced, México Mooca, São Paulo, Brazil North Vancouver Second Narrows, Canada Paris, France Diepkloof, City of Johannesburg, South Africa AGI Value (Numbers) 76 Level of Health Concern Moderate 7 GEO 110 Lab 2: Human Population and Air Pollution There are four parts to this lab. Part 1. Analyzing population pyramids (6 points) Objectives • To analyze population pyramids with three countries and the world and examine age structures and age types. A population pyramid is a graph of age structure to show the age distribution of the total population for males and females. The “PopulationPyramid.net” website (https://www.populationpyramid.net/) allows you to view Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100 by country, by region, and for the world. For this part of the exercise, • You will first VIEW and then DOWNLOAD and SAVE the following population pyramids for three countries and the world in Microsoft PowerPoint. Or you can simply copy from the website and paste it in PowerPoint.Then, answer the following questions below. • I strongly recommend that you RENAME them as you save them (e.g., “Niger 1950”, “Niger 2020”, “Niger 2050”, and so on.) This will make them easier to use for the next step. • Then use PowerPoint to construct a slide presentation that shows the three population pyramids for each country side by side on a single slide. You will have a total of 4 slides. If you size each pyramid to about 4” X 4”, they will fit nicely side by side. And your finished slide will look something like the one above (example: South Korea) Example: Your PowerPoint slide should look like this. • TITLE each slide with the country name 1 • • • • YEAR each year (1950, 2020, 2050) Age Type Young, Transitional, Mature For age type, see the figure below and read “Age Structure and Population Momentum” in pages 176-177 in the textbook. Watch the “Age Structure and Population Momentum” lecture video. Do this for each of United States, India, Niger, plus the WORLD as a whole, and you will have a PPT presentation with 4 slides, which you will turn in along with this worksheet. o United States → 1950, 2020,2050 o India → 1950, 2020, 2050 o Niger → 1950, 2020,2050 o WORLD → 1950, 2020, 2050 Answer the following 4 questions based on the age structure diagrams. Example: Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in South Korea in 2020. Answer: The age type in South Korea in 2020 is mature. There is a small percentage of under 19 years old and a large percentage from 45 to 59 age groups in the diagram. This means the population will decrease and elderly people will increase for the future which is a problem in terms of a shortage of working ages in South Korea. 1. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in India in 2020. 2. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in Niger in 2050. 3. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the United States in 2050. 2 4. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the world in 2020. Part 2. Calculating your Ecological Footprint (4 points) Objectives • To calculate your ecological footprint. • To understand what kinds of things contribute to your ecological footprint. • To learn what you can do to reduce it. Go to Global Footprint Network website at http://www.footprintcalculator.org/ • Click the “Take the First Step”. 5. Calculate your Ecological footprint by answering the questions as best you can. According to the website’s calculation, if everyone on the planet lived this lifestyle, how many “Earths” would we need? _____________________ • • Now, investigate ways to lower that footprint. Retake the quiz, entering in TWO changes that you think would significantly help lower the footprint. 6. What is your NEW ecological footprint? _____________________ (The number should be lower than your answer in Question 5.) 7. Identify the two changes you made in the table provided, and comment on the feasibility of making those changes (i.e. what would help you make those changes? What would hold you back?). Change Could you/would you do this now? What would help you make those changes (money, product availability, societal changes, business changes, etc.)? 3 Part 3. Exploring EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) Air Pollution website (5 points) Objectvies • To identify the formation and the harmful effects of six common air pollutans. Please go to the EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. (URL: https://www.epa.gov/criteria-air-pollutants) There are six common air pollutants. • Ground-level Ozone (O3) • Particulate Matter (PM) • Carbon Monoxide (CO) • Lead (Pb) • Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) • Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Write in your OWN words (Do not copy and paste from the website). Click “Ozone Pollution” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 8. What is “good” vs “bad” ozone? 9. How does ground-level ozone form? 10. What are the health effects of ozone? 4 Click “Particulate Matter” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 11. What is Particulate Matter (PM), and how does it get into the air? 12. What are PM10 and PM2.5? 13. What are the health and environmental effects of Particulate Matter (PM)? Which PM (PM10 and PM2.5) has the greatest risk to health? And Why? Click “Carbon Monoxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 14. What is Carbon Monoxide (CO)? 15. What are the harmful effects of CO? Click “Lead” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 16. How does lead get in the air? 17. What are the effects of lead on human health? 18. What are the effects of lead on ecosystems? Click “Sulfur Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 19. How does Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) get in the air? 20. What are the health effects of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)? Click “Nitrogen Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 21. How does Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) get in the air? 22. What are the environmental effects of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)? Part 4. Searching the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the United States and the World (5 points) (5 points) Objectvies • To learn how the Air Quality Index (AQI) works. • To recognize air pollution levels in some cities in the United States and World with AQI Maps. The U.S. AQI is EPA’s index for reporting air quality. 5 The AQI runs from 0 to 500. The higher the AQI value, the greater the level of air pollution and the greater the health concern. For example, an AQI value of 50 or below represents good air quality, while an AQI value over 300 represents hazardous air quality. Go to the “Air Quality Index (AQI) Basics” website for more information. 23. Based on the NOAA website (url: https://scijinks.gov/air-quality/), where does information about air quality come from? Write in your OWN words. 24. Go to the “Interactive Map of Air Quality” (url: https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/). Which states (and what parts of North America) have higher than 150 (unhealthy, very unhealthy and hazardous) in both Ozone and PM? Depending on time and days, you might not have any states. If so, write None. 25. Go to the “AirNow” website to check current AGI in 10 cities in the United States. (url:https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Nicholasville&state=KY&country=USA) City Lexington, KY Knoxville, TN Seattle, WA Portland, OR San Francisco, CA New York, NY Dallas, TX Tampa, FL Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA Pick one city in the U.S. (Write the city name) Particle (PM 2.5) Value Values Level of Concern 41 Good Values NA Ozone Value Level of Concern 6 26. Go to the “Air Pollution in World; Real-time Air Quality Index (AGI) Visual Map” (url: https://aqicn.org/map/world/) to explore and fill out Real-Time AGI for the 10 cities in the table below. City Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea Puram, Delhi, India Shanghai, China Beijing, China Jakarta Central, Indonesia Dhaka, Bangladesh Merced, México Mooca, São Paulo, Brazil North Vancouver Second Narrows, Canada Paris, France Diepkloof, City of Johannesburg, South Africa AGI Value (Numbers) 76 Level of Health Concern Moderate 7 GEO 110 Lab 2: Human Population and Air Pollution There are four parts to this lab. Part 1. Analyzing population pyramids (6 points) Objectives • To analyze population pyramids with three countries and the world and examine age structures and age types. A population pyramid is a graph of age structure to show the age distribution of the total population for males and females. The “PopulationPyramid.net” website (https://www.populationpyramid.net/) allows you to view Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100 by country, by region, and for the world. For this part of the exercise, • You will first VIEW and then DOWNLOAD and SAVE the following population pyramids for three countries and the world in Microsoft PowerPoint. Or you can simply copy from the website and paste it in PowerPoint.Then, answer the following questions below. • I strongly recommend that you RENAME them as you save them (e.g., “Niger 1950”, “Niger 2020”, “Niger 2050”, and so on.) This will make them easier to use for the next step. • Then use PowerPoint to construct a slide presentation that shows the three population pyramids for each country side by side on a single slide. You will have a total of 4 slides. If you size each pyramid to about 4” X 4”, they will fit nicely side by side. And your finished slide will look something like the one above (example: South Korea) Example: Your PowerPoint slide should look like this. • TITLE each slide with the country name 1 • • • • YEAR each year (1950, 2020, 2050) Age Type Young, Transitional, Mature For age type, see the figure below and read “Age Structure and Population Momentum” in pages 176-177 in the textbook. Watch the “Age Structure and Population Momentum” lecture video. Do this for each of United States, India, Niger, plus the WORLD as a whole, and you will have a PPT presentation with 4 slides, which you will turn in along with this worksheet. o United States → 1950, 2020,2050 o India → 1950, 2020, 2050 o Niger → 1950, 2020,2050 o WORLD → 1950, 2020, 2050 Answer the following 4 questions based on the age structure diagrams. Example: Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in South Korea in 2020. Answer: The age type in South Korea in 2020 is mature. There is a small percentage of under 19 years old and a large percentage from 45 to 59 age groups in the diagram. This means the population will decrease and elderly people will increase for the future which is a problem in terms of a shortage of working ages in South Korea. 1. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in India in 2020. 2. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in Niger in 2050. 3. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the United States in 2050. 2 4. Describe the age structure diagram with the age type in the world in 2020. Part 2. Calculating your Ecological Footprint (4 points) Objectives • To calculate your ecological footprint. • To understand what kinds of things contribute to your ecological footprint. • To learn what you can do to reduce it. Go to Global Footprint Network website at http://www.footprintcalculator.org/ • Click the “Take the First Step”. 5. Calculate your Ecological footprint by answering the questions as best you can. According to the website’s calculation, if everyone on the planet lived this lifestyle, how many “Earths” would we need? _____________________ • • Now, investigate ways to lower that footprint. Retake the quiz, entering in TWO changes that you think would significantly help lower the footprint. 6. What is your NEW ecological footprint? _____________________ (The number should be lower than your answer in Question 5.) 7. Identify the two changes you made in the table provided, and comment on the feasibility of making those changes (i.e. what would help you make those changes? What would hold you back?). Change Could you/would you do this now? What would help you make those changes (money, product availability, societal changes, business changes, etc.)? 3 Part 3. Exploring EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) Air Pollution website (5 points) Objectvies • To identify the formation and the harmful effects of six common air pollutans. Please go to the EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. (URL: https://www.epa.gov/criteria-air-pollutants) There are six common air pollutants. • Ground-level Ozone (O3) • Particulate Matter (PM) • Carbon Monoxide (CO) • Lead (Pb) • Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) • Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Write in your OWN words (Do not copy and paste from the website). Click “Ozone Pollution” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 8. What is “good” vs “bad” ozone? 9. How does ground-level ozone form? 10. What are the health effects of ozone? 4 Click “Particulate Matter” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 11. What is Particulate Matter (PM), and how does it get into the air? 12. What are PM10 and PM2.5? 13. What are the health and environmental effects of Particulate Matter (PM)? Which PM (PM10 and PM2.5) has the greatest risk to health? And Why? Click “Carbon Monoxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 14. What is Carbon Monoxide (CO)? 15. What are the harmful effects of CO? Click “Lead” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 16. How does lead get in the air? 17. What are the effects of lead on human health? 18. What are the effects of lead on ecosystems? Click “Sulfur Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 19. How does Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) get in the air? 20. What are the health effects of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)? Click “Nitrogen Dioxide” in the main EPA Criteria Air Pollutants website. 21. How does Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) get in the air? 22. What are the environmental effects of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)? Part 4. Searching the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the United States and the World (5 points) (5 points) Objectvies • To learn how the Air Quality Index (AQI) works. • To recognize air pollution levels in some cities in the United States and World with AQI Maps. The U.S. AQI is EPA’s index for reporting air quality. 5 The AQI runs from 0 to 500. The higher the AQI value, the greater the level of air pollution and the greater the health concern. For example, an AQI value of 50 or below represents good air quality, while an AQI value over 300 represents hazardous air quality. Go to the “Air Quality Index (AQI) Basics” website for more information. 23. Based on the NOAA website (url: https://scijinks.gov/air-quality/), where does information about air quality come from? Write in your OWN words. 24. Go to the “Interactive Map of Air Quality” (url: https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/). Which states (and what parts of North America) have higher than 150 (unhealthy, very unhealthy and hazardous) in both Ozone and PM? Depending on time and days, you might not have any states. If so, write None. 25. Go to the “AirNow” website to check current AGI in 10 cities in the United States. (url:https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Nicholasville&state=KY&country=USA) City Lexington, KY Knoxville, TN Seattle, WA Portland, OR San Francisco, CA New York, NY Dallas, TX Tampa, FL Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA Pick one city in the U.S. (Write the city name) Particle (PM 2.5) Value Values Level of Concern 41 Good Values NA Ozone Value Level of Concern 6 26. Go to the “Air Pollution in World; Real-time Air Quality Index (AGI) Visual Map” (url: https://aqicn.org/map/world/) to explore and fill out Real-Time AGI for the 10 cities in the table below. City Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea Puram, Delhi, India Shanghai, China Beijing, China Jakarta Central, Indonesia Dhaka, Bangladesh Merced, México Mooca, São Paulo, Brazil North Vancouver Second Narrows, Canada Paris, France Diepkloof, City of Johannesburg, South Africa AGI Value (Numbers) 76 Level of Health Concern Moderate 7
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