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What are the main sources of carbon dioxide?

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  • Combustion of hydocarbon fuels e.g. power stations
  • Deforestation
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Four Points

What are the main sources of methane?

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  • Cattle farming
  • Landfill sites
  • Rice paddy fields
  • Natural gas leakage
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What are the main sources of nitrous oxide? (Two points)

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  • Ferilised soils
  • Changes in land use e.g. from soil when the land is ploughed up
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What is the main source of carbon monoxide?

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Incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons e.g. from car exhausts

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What is the main source of nitorgen oxides?

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Internal combustion e.g. from the reaction of N2 and O2 at high temperatures

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How do you calculate concentration in ppm from a percentage?

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Multiply by 10,000

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What are the main gases in unpolluted air?

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Nitrogen,oxygen and argon

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What is the equation that links wavelength, speed of light and frequency?

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speed of light=wavelength x frequency

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What is the speed of light?

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3.00 x 10-8

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What is the equation that links energy of a photon, frequency and planck constant?

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energy of a photon=planck constant x fequency

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What is planck constant?

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6.63 x 10-34

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What happens to molecules when energy interacts?

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  • Translation
  • Rotation
  • Vibration
  • Electronic
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Three points

Why is ultraviolet (UV) radiation dangerous?

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  • Breaks chemical bonds, including the bonds found in DNA
  • Damage proteins
  • Irriate blood vessels
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How do sun creams protect against UV radiation?

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Sun creams absorb UV radiation before it reaches the skin

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What is ozone a pollutant?

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Photochemical smog

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What is homolytic fission?

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One of two shared electrons goes two each atom, producing radicals

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What is heterolytic fission?

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Both of the shared electrons go to just one of the atoms when the bond breaks

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What are the three stages of a radical chain reaction?

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Initiation, propogation and termination

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What are the three types of imbs?

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  • ID-ID
  • PD-PD
  • Hydrogen bonding
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What is a nucleophile?

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A species which donates an electron pair in a reaction. They have a high electron density

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Give two example of nucleophiles

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:OH and :NH3

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What is an electrophile?

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A species which accepts an electron pair in a reaction. They have area of low electron density

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Give two examples of electrophiles

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H+ and NO2+

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