ACID RAIN
Welcome to this research study on acid rain. You may choose
to be a specialist in one of the areas listed below.
You may research information in your field, compile data,
analyze the data, and then meet with others in your group
for their input. You will then write a report on this topic.
You may write about information you discovered, and creative
ideas about any aspect of this topic.
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Click on the subject of your choice:
CHEMISTRY
You have chosen to be a chemist. Your job will be be to find out the
chemical make-up and properties of acid rain. Some questions you may
want to answer are:
- What is an acid?
- What chemicals make rain into "acid rain", and how?
- Where do the chemicals come from?
- What do the chemicals do to the environment?
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for resources
click here for Acid Rain ABCs
click here for some great general information
click here for
information about pH
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for reference material on cloud chemistry
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here for information about distillation
click here
to read about an artist's solution
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ECONOMICS
You have chosen to be an economist. Your job will be to
find out effects of acid rain on the world economy. Some questions you may
want to answer are:
- What is the world trend in the problem of acid rain?
- What economies are hardest hit, and how?
- What is the estimated cost, in dollars, to economies by acid rain?
- What is the estimated cost of preventing acid rain, or any solutions?
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for information on acid rain and power stations
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for information on the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain
click here for general information on acid rain from Yahoo
click here for some solutions
click here for
information about cost of acid rain
click here for
information about Bush's Clean Air Act (one view)
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HISTORY
You have chosen to be a historian. Your job will be to find out how acid
rain has evolved through history in cause and effect. Some questions you
may want to answer are:
- Has acid rain or other pollution always been a problem?
- When did acid rain begin to be a problem?
- What are the main contributors (in historical evolution)that cause
this problem?
- Are there any lessons to be learned from history?
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information about the Mayan Pyramids and acid rain
click here for general
information sites
click here for Timework
Page
click here for
information about the Industrial Revolution
click here to see how volcanoes have produced acid rain through history
click here for more information about acid rain in history
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ENVIRONMENT
You have chosen to be an Environmentalist. Your job will be to find out how
acid rain effects the environment, water, air, soil, plants or animals.
Some questions you may want to answer:
- What does acid rain do to living or non-living things?
- What places are especially vulnerable to acid rain?
- What are the causes of acid rain?
- What are possible preventions or solutions to the problem of acid rain?
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click here for information on Hydrology
click here for general
information
click here for Environmental News Network
click here for
information on how acidity affects aquatic organisms
click here for news on the environment
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for more information about pollution control
click here for information about environment and
acid rain
click here to have a scientist
answer your questions
click here for effects of acid rain on terrestial habitats
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HEALTH
You have chosen to be a researcher in the field of human health. Your job
will be to find out possible connections between acid rain and health
problems. Some possible questions you may want to answer are:
- How does acid rain affect living things(plants and animals)?
- What non-living things are affected?
- How can human health be affected directly or indirectly?
- How does one reconcile the importance of technology versus human health?
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click here for
government information on acid rain
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for information on acid rain's effects on human health
click here for information on effects of acid rain on drinking water
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POLITICS
You have chosen to be a politician. Your job will
be to find out what problems are associated with
acid rain, and if these problems could be
controlled by legislation, and if so, how this could
be done. Some questions
you may want to consider are:
- Can one legislate in a fair manner?
- How would you go about it?
- What are the social and economic implications of such legislation?
- How would you deal with what is ethical and moral versus what is popular,
as an elected representative. Is what is popular always right, or is what
is right always popular?
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about S.E.P.A.State Environmental Policy Act,
Washington State
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for some references
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for information about government regulations
click here for E.P.A.
documents on Acid Rain
click here for general information
about acid rain in all categories
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