Vocab
This form of precipitation is a mixture of snow and rain.
What is Sleet?
Burning these causes SO2 and NOX to be released into the air.
What are Fossil fuels?
This is what acid rain does to lakes and rivers.
What is acidify them?
Acid combines with this to form precipitation.
What is Water vapour?
____ is removed in scrubbers.
What is SO2?
The subscripts ”1”, ”2” and ”3” can be used in replace of ”x” in these toxic chemical compounds.
What are nitrous oxides?
These two natural occurrences can cause acid rain.
What are Volcanic eruptions and decaying vegetation?
This process makes it hard for plants to take up water and minerals.
What is leaching?
This causes pollution to become even more widespread while in condensed form.
The material used to filter exhaust in scrubbers.
What is a Limestone slurry?
Acid rain has a ____ rating of 4 on this widely used 1-14 scale.
What is the pH scale?
This acid is created by combining carbon with water molecules.
What is carbonic acid?
In humans, this is the most common effect.
What are Respiratory diseases?
This is the form that dry deposition comes down as.
What is a Gas?
Low _____ combustion is a way to reduce emissions in Diesel engines.
what is NOX
Natural rain has a rating of this number on the ph scale.
What is 5/5.5?
This gas is the leading cause for acidic lakes.
What is carbon dioxide?
Scientists looks to these species, such as frogs, to study the effects of Acid Rain.
What is an indicator species?
Alkaline soils will complete this chemical reaction to minimize the impact of harmful gasses.
What is neutralization?
One property used in separating coal
What is Density?
Also: settling characteristics, or surface properties
This form of acid deposition only occurs when there is no water vapour present in the atmosphere.
What is Dry deposition?
A ____ reaction is used for the creation of NOx and SO3.
This mineral/element is leached from clay soil into streams and lakes, causing most of the life to die.
What is aluminum?
The acidic cycle is closely related to this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
The place where scrubbers clean the exhaust
What is The flue chamber?