Give suitable biological reasons for the following statements:
Acid rain is harmful to the environment.
Topic: Harmful effects of acid rain
Answer
Acid rain ACIDIFIES lakes and rivers, killing fish and aquatic life, and leaches essential minerals from the soil so that plants and forests die. It also CORRODES buildings and monuments of marble and limestone — the damage to the Taj Mahal being the standard example — and corrodes metal structures and statues.
Give effects of DIFFERENT KINDS — one on living things, one on materials.
HOW IT FORMS, worth one line: oxides of SULPHUR and NITROGEN released by burning fossil fuels dissolve in atmospheric moisture to make sulphuric and nitric acids, falling as rain of pH below 5.6.
The corrosion of marble has a name worth using: STONE LEPROSY. Industries around Agra were restricted precisely to protect the Taj Mahal.