Tuesday 16 April 2013

C1c Clean Air

You need to be able to:
  • Describe the composition and formation of today's atmosphere (including the role of photosynthesis, respiration, combustion and volcanoes)
  • Explain why it is important to control atmospheric pollution
  • Describe how a catalytic converter works (carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, nitrogen to nitrous oxides, high temperature)
  1. Drawing of part of Earth's surface, with water, oxygen, ozone and nitrogen in the atmosphere.Drawing of part of Earth's surface, with water, carbon dioxide, and ammonia molecules in atmosphere.Drawing of part of Earth's surface, with helium and hydrogen atoms in atmosphere, heading upward toward space.
  2. Atmospheric evolution from NASA
  3. BBC Bitesize notes 1 and 2
  4. The story of the catalytic converter by BASF

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