Summer Of 1975: Acid Rain

Acid rain is rain that has become acidic, because of air pollutants in the atmosphere. Rain has a normal pH level of around 5-5.5 which is only slightly acidic. 7 on the pH scale is the neutral and anything below that is considered acidic. Acid rain has a pH level around 4 which is 10 times more acidic. Acid rain can fall in many different ways and has many effects on the environment.

There is an overpopulation in the largemouth bass population due to the fact that there isn’t as many people fishing largemouth bass as they usually did. At the year 2001, the amount of largemouth bass caught decreases by about 600 fish. Which leads on to the fact that the largemouth bass population increases when their main predator isn’t killing them as much and leads onto a overpopulation. The ph levels are turning more acidic by decreasing to the ph level of 5.5 . This causes the the food sources for the fish to have slower reactions which allows them to die easier and causes the food source for the fish population to be low. Missing information that would be valuable to the continued analysis of the problem or would better identify the initial causes of the problem is to show how much pollution comes to the tri-lakes and to see where it comes form during the years of 1988-2008. This would allow me to see if pollution is really the problem to the ph levels. Policy recommendations that I would make to helps the Tri-lakes economy be better is for allowing the amount of fish caught to rise due to the fact that the amount of fish are overpopulating. Also to allow only a certain amount of waste can get into the lake to stop the ph levels turning acidic. An example is for people to clean their boats before fishing in the lakes to prevent more bacteria or chemicals entering the lake. Also to monitor over the pollution or waste from the

Acid deposition can come in two forms, dry and wet. Wet deposition is when the acid falls in the form of fog, snow or other precipitation. Dry deposition is found in dry areas where it does not precipitate often. In these areas the chemicals fall as dust or smoke, and stick to whatever they land on. Acid deposition can be result to both natural and manmade sources. Natural sources of acid deposition include electrical storms, volcanoes, and decaying vegetation. Man-made emissions, from power plants that burn fossil fuels are released into the atmosphere as nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur dioxide (SO2). These elements react to oxygen, water, and other gasses in the atmosphere in order to form acidic compounds. These acidic compounds then fall in either a wet or dry form. Acid rain can have a potentially devastating effects on the ecosystem it falls on. When acid rain hits the ground, it faces a natural buffer in the soil often in the form of limestone and calcium carbonate. The water will then travel into either a stream or a lake, where it affects fish. If the fallen rain has a pH at or below 5 undesirable species invade, often in the form of mosses or plankton. The top layer of water becomes too acidic for the inhabitants reproductive cycle to work properly, slowly killing off the

Humans are surrounded by thousands of bodies of water throughout the world. What makes a lake differ from an ocean? Or what makes a pond different from a lake? A pond is a body of standing water either natural or man made, that is usually smaller than a lake. Ponds contain amazing biodiversity, providing an environment for birds, fish, amphibians, alages, protists, and many many more organisms. A pond is normally much shallower than a lake, and sometimes plants roots can grow all the way to the bottom of the pond because the suns rays can penetrate to the bottom of the pond. It is very hard to determine the difference between a pond and a lake, most differences occur

The range is between 0 and 14 and shows how basic or acidic the tested water is on a logarithmic scale. The lower the number, the more acidic the water is. A healthy lake is slightly acidic at 6.5 and in levels lower than 4.2, fish will not be able to survive. As pH levels move away from 6.5, more stress could be caused to aquatic life which could raise mortality rates. Changes in pH levels can also be natural or anthropogenic. Natural influences include carbonic materials in the water. When carbonic minerals are in the water, the alkalinity of the water increases (Host 2005). The levels of pH can also fluctuate due to human-induced reasons such as pollution and acid rain. Acid rain is any form of precipitation that has a pH level less than five (Mack 2014). Point source pollution can also influence pH levels. Chemicals from point source pollution result from agriculture and industrial runoff. Decreases in pH levels could result from respiration, decomposition, and an increase in carbon dioxide. Increases in pH levels result from photosynthesis and a decrease in carbon

Acid rain is rain that has been made acidic by certain pollutants in the air and has low pH levels that can harm the environment. It is a type of acid deposition that can appear in many forms such as, wet deposition, which can be rain, sleet snow or fog that is more acidic than normal, and dry deposition, where gases and dust particles become acidic. (Epa.gov) Acid deposition in wet and dry forms, falls on buildings, cars and trees and makes lakes acidic, which then leads to the danger of plant and animal life. Dry acid deposition though, can be inhaled by humans, which can then cause health problems. (Epa.gov)

Water was collected using a Wan Dorn Bottle (Lab Manual). There were approximately 20 students that collected samples from the deepest part of the lake, and 20 students that collected samples from the shallowest part of the lake. The shallower portion of the lake was closest to a golf course and floating vegetation (Lab Manual). Five water collections were made at each location. From the deep part of the lake, each of the five samples was taken at 1m; from the shallower part of the lake, each of the five samples was taken at a 0.5m depth (Lab Manual). These water samples were collected into 5 separate bottles, each labeled one through five. Bottle one had water nearest the surface, whereas bottle five had water collected deeper in the lake. Bottles two through four were intermediate levels of one and five. We used the water in the bottles labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, to detect the temperature and test the pH of the water samples from the various depths of both locations. Water from the labeled bottles 1, 3, and 5 were put into bottles labeled N1, N3, and N5, and were brought back to the lab to analyze their nutrient content (Lab

In general, acid rain affects lakes and streams in two ways, which are chronic and episodic.

Acid rain can hurt the plants in the forest environment because when the plant start drinking the acid rain it makes the plants natural defense weaker. In doing that they are easier to die by diseases because they do not have much natural defense to protect them. It can also cause fires to the environment. Acid rain is known to take the nutrients out of soil killing trees, plants, and crops. With the low nutrients it does damage to the red spruce tree

If the acid pollution in the air continuously adds up the acidity in the rainwater will increase slowly, but surely.

Acid rains as a phenomenon has been identified during the 19th century in Europe, and was attributed the smokes rising from chimneys factories coinciding with the overtime increase of rain acidification especially in Scandinavia. There is a growing interest in acid rains and its destructive effects in the light of the development of global industry especially in the industrialized countries, which consume huge quantities of fuel and release increasing quantities of gases such as sulphur dioxide, hydrogen, and nitrogen oxides which produce sulfur and nitrogenouns acids upon the interactions with oxygen and water vapour. Acids produced remain in the form of fine mist until dissolved in rainfall once occurs and then precipitates as

Acid rain is created through discharges of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, which reacts with water molecules and creates an acid. Acid rain breaks down rock and soil with contact through the Earth’s atmosphere, which is also known as weathering (Washington University).

Acid Rain deposition can come in two forms, wet and dry. The wet form is when the Acidic components mix with any type of moisture in the air

This report is written to explain about acid rain in detail which is one of the

Acid rain can be considered as broad term that is used to describe numerous ways wherein an acid falls out from