Topic Content:
- Consequences of Air Pollution
- Control Measures of Air Pollution
- Evaluation Questions
Consequences of Air Pollution:
i. Carbon monoxide:
In low concentration dizziness, headache, nausea, and tiredness are caused. If inhaled for a long period even at low concentrations, it causes brain damage, at a higher concentration, it can cause unconsciousness and eventually death. It reacts with haemoglobinHaemoglobin (Hb) is a protein, found in the red blood cells, that carries oxygen in your body and gives blood its red colour. More in the blood, preventing it from taking oxygen, and forms carboxyhemoglobin, which can lead to death by suffocation.
ii. Sulphur dioxide:
It causes lung diseases in humans. It changes the green colour of plants’ leaves and corrodes metals.
iii. Nitrogen oxides:
This causes lung irritation, suffocation, disease in plants, and corrosion
Corrosion is defined as a natural process that causes the transformation of pure metals into undesirable substances when they react with substances like water or air. This reaction causes damage and... More of metallic objects.
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1a. Nitrogen dioxide
2Carbon monoxide
3Hydrogen sulphide
4Smoke
bAutomobiles
Power station
Industries
Buring of wood and vegetation for agricultural purpose
2 lt causes lung disease in human
It can causes injury to the eye,nose,ear
It can lead to death of plant and animal
It causes injury to the lung of the respiratory