EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Elderly people may be particularly vulnerable to air pollution because the ability to eliminate chemicals from the body decreases with age. However, they may also be less sensitive to some effects such as irritation of the eyes and nose.

Detailed explanation-2: -One reason why children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of air pollution is that they breathe more rapidly than adults and so absorb more pollutants. They also live closer to the ground, where some pollutants reach peak concentrations – at a time when their brains and bodies are still developing.

Detailed explanation-3: -As people age, their bodies are less able to compensate for the effects of environmental hazards. Air pollution can aggravate heart disease and stroke, lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, and diabetes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Children are more vulnerable to breathing in polluted air than adults because their airways are smaller and still developing. They also breathe more rapidly than adults, meaning they take in more polluted air.

Detailed explanation-5: -people with lung diseases, such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. infants and young children. people who work or exercise outdoors. adults over 65. people with a cardiovascular disease. More items