Acid rain-4 essentail questions

1.What, specifically about your topic, are you going to research?

The causes of the acid rain.

2.What conclusions did you come to? What do you recommend average citizens do to make a difference? Be specific. This is the main part of your assignment.

• The acid rain is mostly caused by the cars and chemical reactions that begin when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the air.
• These substances rise very high into the atmosphere, where they mix and react with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form more acidic pollutants, called acid rain.
• Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen very easily dissolves in the water that's why when it gets to the atmosphere it reacts with the water and falls as rain,snow,sleet,and etc.
• After the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dissolve with the water it can be carried very far by the wind.
• Humans are one of the big causes for the acid rains.Over the last decades humans have released many chemicals which mix up in the atmosphere. Power plants release the majority of sulfur dioxide and much of the nitrogen oxides when they burn fossil fuels, such as coal, to produce electricity.

3.What would happen if, worst-case scenario, nobody listened to your recommendations?

If no one cared about the acid rain and just kept releasing these harmful gases, all the plants would be destroyed and people would start getting sick.The earth wouldn't be very safe for animals, plants, or humans.I also think the acid rain could even cause global warming.

4.What would happen if, best-case scenario, everybody listened to your recommendations?

All humans would start listening to the solutions we have for the acid rain and start doing what they should do.That would most surely decrease the rate of acid rain and many more animals, plants, and humans would be safe on earth.The companies that release harmful gases would stop doing that.Also the cars would be made differently and safer for the earth.