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How does smog form in cities?

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Answer: Pollution reacts with sunlight

Pollution reacts with sunlightCorrect! Smog forms when vehicle and industrial emissions (nitrogen oxides, VOCs) react with sunlight, creating ground-level ozone and particulate matter. This is 'photochemical smog.' It's worse in sunny, high-traffic cities.

Clouds get trapped by buildingsWrong. Smog isn't trapped clouds. It's pollution that reacts with sunlight to form harmful ozone and particulates. Geography can trap smog but buildings don't create it.

Cities produce natural fogWrong. Smog is air pollution, not natural fog (which is water vapor). Smog forms when emissions from vehicles and industry react with sunlight.

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