This question is about atmospheric pollution.

1.
The image below shows a limestone carving which has been damaged by atmospheric pollution.

The carving has been:

• blackened by soot
• eroded where the limestone has reacted with atmospheric pollutants.

(a) What reacted with the limestone to cause the erosion?

✓) one box.
Tick (✓

Acid rain

Ammonia

Carbon monoxide

Oxygen

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(b) Soot is produced by the incomplete combustion of diesel oil.

Complete the sentences.

Choose answers from the box.

ammonia carbon methane

nitrogen oxygen

Incomplete combustion happens when there is not enough _______________.

Incomplete combustion produces particles of _______________.

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(c) Complete the sentence.

Particles of soot in the atmosphere cause global _______________.

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(d) Carbon monoxide is produced by the incomplete combustion of methane.

Balance the equation for the reaction.

2 CH4 + 3 O2 → ____ CO + 4 H2O

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(e) Car engines work at high temperatures.

Complete the sentences.

Choose answers from the box.

air methane oxides of nitrogen

oxygen petrol sulfur dioxide

In car engines, nitrogen is present.

The nitrogen in car engines comes from ____________________.

At high temperatures, the nitrogen reacts with ____________________.

This reaction produces ____________________.

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 Greenhouse gases affect the temperature of the Earth.
2.
(a) Which gas is a greenhouse gas?

Tick one box.

Argon

Methane

Nitrogen

Oxygen

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(b) An increase in global temperature will cause climate change.

What is one possible effect of climate change?

Tick one box.

Deforestation

Global dimming

Sea levels rising

Volcanic activity

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(c) Carbon dioxide is also a greenhouse gas.

The figure below shows how the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
changed since 1850.

Which process is the reason for the change in carbon dioxide concentration shown on the
figure above?

Tick one box.

Burning of fossil fuels

Carbon capture

Formation of sedimentary rocks

Photosynthesis

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(d) Give three conclusions that can be made from the figure above.

1. _________________________________________________________________

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2. _________________________________________________________________

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3. _________________________________________________________________

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 This question is about the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere.
3.
(a) Give one reason why it is difficult to produce models for future climate change.

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(b) Describe how carbon dioxide helps to maintain temperatures on Earth.

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(c) The figure below shows the change in mean global air temperature from 1860 to 2000.

Explain how human activities have contributed to the main trend shown from 1910 in the
figure above.

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 (a) For the last 200 million years the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
4. remained almost the same.

Describe the natural processes which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

To gain full marks in this question you should write your ideas in good English.
Put them into a sensible order and use the correct scientific words.

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(b) The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased over the last one hundred
years. Suggest two reasons why this has happened.

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 Petroleum diesel is a fuel made from crude oil.
5. Biodiesel is a fuel made from vegetable oils.
To make biodiesel, large areas of land are needed to grow crops from which the vegetable oils
are extracted.
Large areas of forest are cleared by burning the trees to provide more land for growing these
crops.

(a) Use this information and your knowledge and understanding to answer these questions.

(i) Carbon neutral means that there is no increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.

Suggest why adverts claim that using biodiesel is carbon neutral.

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 (ii) Explain why clearing large areas of forest has an environmental impact on the
atmosphere.

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(b) Why is there an increasing demand for biodiesel?

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(c) Suggest why producing biodiesel from crops:

(i) causes ethical concerns

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(ii) causes economic concerns.

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Many human activities result in carbon dioxide emissions.

6. Our carbon footprint is a measure of how much carbon dioxide we each cause to be produced.

(a) Why should we be concerned about our carbon footprint?

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(b) Most power stations in the UK burn coal.
Coal was formed from tree-like plants over millions of years.

Suggest why burning wood instead of coal would help to reduce our carbon footprint.

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