Acid Rain
The devastating effects of acid rain on the environment
Background
Acid rain happens when pollution in the air from burning fossil fuels and other substances are mixed with with water vapor, and then are condensed into acid rain. It is slowly becoming a more danger to the environment.
Acid rain has a pH level lower than 5.
Trees, rivers, lakes, and oceans get polluted by acid rain.
Happens when pollution in the air is combine with water vapor, thus making it rain pollution, as soon as it condensates.
- Acid rain has been a problem since 1970. Before 1955, the US only had a little region of acid rain.
Solution to the Problem
Acid rain needs to be stopped because it is very detrimental to the environment. We could stop it by:
- Avoid burning fossil fuels. We could use alternate energies.
- Stopping pollution in the atmosphere.
- Setting limits on how much fossil fuels cars and factories could emit.
- Limiting the amount of fertilizer that people use so it doesn't end up in a body of water.
Acid Precipitation - A Sustainability Documentary
Work Cited
Freedman, Bill. "Acid rain." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 5th ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2014. Science in Context. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.
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Gale Document Number: GALE|C V2644030015
Acid rain." Environmental Encyclopedia. Gale, 2011. Science in Context. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.
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