Acid Rain Webquest Name:
Go to http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/index.html to answer the following questions. You may need to click on other links within the page to find the answers – surf around. All of the answers are on the EPA website. You will not need to search others. They are generally sequential.
Acid Rain
1. What are the two parts of acid rain?
a. What is an example of the first part?
b. What is an example of the second part?
2. Name two things that affect the strength of the effect of acid rain.
3. a. What two compounds are the primary causes of acid rain, based on scientific research?
b. What is the source of those compounds?
4. ______increases the rate of most of these reactions (between gases, water, and oxygen).
Effects of Acid Rain: Lakes and Streams
5. What is buffering capacity?
6. a. What percentage of acid lakes were caused by acid rain?
b. What percentage of acid streams were caused by acid rain?
7. Name three regions that are sensitive to water acidification.
8. What is the location and pH of the most acidic lake in the US?
9. As pH in a lake or stream ______, aluminum levels ______.
10. Why are high aluminum levels harmful to fish?
11. What is the animal that is most tolerant of pH changes?
12. The laws that are mandating the decrease of SO2 emissions are called the ______.
Effects of Acid Rain: Forests
13. Besides acid rain, what are two causes of stress in forests?
Effects of Acid Rain: Materials
14. What are two building materials that are commonly used in ancient and modern structures?
Effects of Acid Rain: Human Health
15. Acid rain particles can cause lung disorders, such as ______and ______.
What Society Can Do About Acid Deposition
16. What fossil fuel is most responsible for SO2 emissions?
17. What is a scrubber?
18. What do catalytic converters on cars do?
19. Name three alternative, clean energy sources.
20. What always something that we can do to help decrease acid rain?