Title: Weather 06 dolgozathoz gyak

Q: Air pollution is one of the most p... env... problems because atmospheric c... can carry c... air to every part of the globe.
A: pervasive   environmental   currents   contaminated

Q: Most air pollution comes from automobile e... and from p... that burn coal and oil to p... energy for industrial and c... use.
A: emissions    power plants    produce    consumer

Q: Carbon dioxide and other harmful gases r... into the air from these so... a...ly affect weather pa... and the health of people, animals and plants.
A: released   sources    adversely    pattern

Q: In... nations p... most of the world's air pollution.
A: industrial    produce

Q: For example, although the United States is home to just 5 percent of the world's population, the country ge... 22 percent of human-made carbon dioxide e... and 19 percent of all greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
A: generates    emissions

Q: These e... h... the environment by causing acid rain and global warming, and by d... the protective ozone l... that su.... the earth.
A: emissions   harm   depleting    layer    surrounds

Q: Acid rain, a serious th... around the world o... when s... dioxide and nitrogen oxide e... from automobiles and f...-fuel burning p.... fall back to Earth as acidic p....
A: threat    occurs    sulphur (US sulfur)    emissions    fossil    power plants    precipitation

Q: Acid rain has c... many lakes in Canada and the northeast United States, and has been documented even in the non...... state of Hawaii.
A: contaminated    nonindustrial

Q: In the United Kingdom 57 percent of all trees are m....ly to s....ly de.... due to corrosive f...., and production of food cr... has de.... in many parts of the world.
A: moderately    severely    defoliated     fallout     crops     declined

Q: Acid rain has eroded the s.... of great art and a.... treasures, including the an.... s.... of Rome and the Sphinx in E....
A: surface    architectural     ancient     sculptures     Egypt.

Q: Global warming is another negative by.... of air pollution, and although there is de.... about the s... of the problem, most sc.... agree that the earth is heating up.
A: by-product    debate      source    scientists

Q: One of the pr... causes is thought to be the high atmospheric concentrations of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
A: principal

Q: These and related su.... are called "greenhouse" gases because they t... heat in the earth's atmosphere instead of letting it radiate into space, thereby r... air temperature.
A: substances    trap    raising

Q: Since 1800 atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have r... 25 percent, largely due to the burning of f... fuels.
A: risen    fossil

Q: Based on cu... levels of greenhouse-gas e...., a..... temperatures around the globe will in... from 1° to 3°C by the year 2050.
A: current    emissions   average    increase

Q: By c..., temperatures dropped only 3°C during the last Ice Age, which bl... much of the earth in gl... ice.
A: comparison    blanketed    glacial

Q: If the warming trend continues, gl... would m..., causing sea levels to r... by as much as 65 centimetres, a de... that would in... most coastal cities.
A: glaciers    melt    rise    depth    inundate

Q: Low-lying island nations such as the Maldives would di.... altogether and f.... farmland would turn to desert.
A: disappear    fertile

Q: Although e... of greenhouse gases has dropped 11 percent in recent years, this may be only a t... l... due to the worldwide re... and industrial slowdowns.
A: emission    temporary    lull   recession

Q: In fact, it would take a 60 percent cut in e.... to stabilize atmospheric gases at c... levels.
A: emissions    current

Q: In December 1997, 160 nations signed the Kyoto P....
A: protocol

Q: Still waiting r.... this treaty would re..... su.... reductions in greenhouse gas e... by in... nations.
A: ratification   require    substantial    emissions    industrialized

Q: As a w..., these nations would be re.... to reduce their e.... by 5 percent.
A: whole    required    emissions

Q: Another serious problem re... to air pollution is the sh... of the upper atmospheric ozone layer that blocks out dangerous ultraviolet light.
A: related    shrinking

Q: First reported over Antartica in the 1980s, ozone holes have since been d... over parts of North America and el....
A: detected    elswhere

Q: The holes are created when ozone molecules are destroyed by chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals that are used in refrigerants and ae... co.... and can dr... into the upper armosphere if not pr.... contained.
A: aerosol    containers   drift   properly

Q: Some scientists es.... that 60 percent of the ozone layer may already have been lost to pollution, and that even a 10 percent lo... could add a total of 300,000 new ca... of skin c.... and 1,6 million c... of the eye ca... worldwide.
A: estimate   loss    cases    cancer   cases    cataracts

Q: The high levels of UV light that cause skin c.... and eye problems may also h... plankton, the fo... of the food ch... in oceans.
A: cancer   harm     foundation    chain

Q: Serious de... in plankton levels could lead to catastrophic lo... of other sea life.
A: declines    losses

Q: If in.... nations s... to a plan to ban all CFC use by 1996, atmospheric levels of CFCs are expected to p... around the turn of the century and disappear en... in 80 years.
A: industrialized     stick    peak    entirely

Q: Finally, ur... air pollution, usually in the form of smog ge....by industry and automobiles, remains a sreious health ha... for more than 1 billion people around the world.
A: urban    generated    hazard

Q: During the 1980s European countries cut s.... dioxide e... by 27 percent, and the vo.... of most po..... dropped in the United States.
A: sulphur (US sulfur)    emissions     volume    pollutants

Q: Even so, cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City and Be... record unhealthy levels of air pollution as often as one day out of every three.
A: Beijing