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Natural Causes
Solutions
Effects
Chemistry
Societal Causes
100
a fiery natural cause that emits sulfric acid
what are volcanic eruptions
100
What is more effective in preventing acid rain: a hybrid or an SUV burning fossil fuels
What is a hybrid?
100
List two species that may die because of acid rain
What are fish, trees, plants etc.
100
what are the two main chemicals that cause rain to become more acidic?
What are NO2 and CO2
100
what is burned that causes acid rain?
What are fossil fuels?
200
Smoky the bear encourages you to prevent these
What are forest fires?
200
Two alternate energy sources
What are Solar panels and wind energy?
200
What manmade structures are being destroyed by acid rain?
What are buildings, bridges, statues, tombstones, and sculptures?
200
what are the equations of normal rain chemical processes?
What are CO2 + HO2 --> H2CO3 / 2NO + O2 --->2NO2
200
One cause of fossil fuels being emitted everyday people partake in.
What is driving cars?
300
The three main chemicals that when released make rain more acidic
What are Sulfur dioxide, Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen dioxide
300
List three things you can do
What is walking, burning fewer fossil fuels, preventing forest fires etc.
300
List two building materials that acid rain destroys over time
What are bronze/limestone/marble
300
what harmful gasses are produced when Nitrogen dioxide reacts with rain to make it more acidic?
What are nitrous acid and nitric acid?
300
What are two places emitting chemicals such as Nitrogen oxides and Sulfur dioxides that cause rain to become more acidic?
What are power plants and industrial centers?
400
These accidents in the woods can lead to the emission of chemicals which cause acid rain
What are forest fires?
400
Minerals that factories want to limit the burning of
What are coal and sulfur?
400
What are two ecosystems suffering because of acid precipitation
What are aquatic ecosystems and forests
400
The four components of acid rain
What are acids, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon dioxide?
400
An example of a fossil fuel
What is coal?
500
A product of combustion of lightening strikes
What is NO
500
List a chemical equation describing power plant scrubbers.
What is SO2+Ca(OH)2 -->CaSO3 (solid) / 2NO+2CO --> N2+2CO2 / 2NO+2H2--> N2+2H2O
500
Cause of asthma and bronchitis due to acid rain?
What are sulfur and nitrate particles inhaled?
500
Overall product of acid rains formed from fossil fuels and volcanic gas
What is H2SO4 / H2SO3
500
What are the power plants etc. trying to do when they release fossil fuels and chemicals causing acid rain?
What is generating electricity?