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Essential idea: Increased industrialization has led to greater production of nitrogen and sulfur oxides leading to acid rain, which is damaging our environment. These problems can be reduced through collaboration with national and intergovernmental organizations.
Essential idea: Increased industrialization has led to greater production of nitrogen and sulfur oxides leading to acid rain, which is damaging our environment. These problems can be reduced through collaboration with national and intergovernmental organizations.
Understandings
Understandings
• Rain is naturally acidic because of dissolved CO2 and has a pH of 5.6. Acid deposition has a pH below 5.6.
• Acid deposition is formed when nitrogen or sulfur oxides dissolve in water to form HNO3, HNO2, H2SO4 and H2SO3
• Sources of the oxides of sulfur and nitrogen and the effects of acid deposition should be covered.
Applications and skills
Applications and skills
• Balancing the equations that describe the combustion of sulfur and nitrogen to their oxides and the subsequent formation of H2SO3, H2SO4, HNO2 and HNO3.
• Distinction between the pre-combustion and post-combustion methods of reducing sulfur oxides emissions.
• Deduction of acid deposition equations for acid deposition with reactive metals and carbonates.
Aims
Aims
• Aim 6: The effects of acid rain on different construction materials could be quantitatively investigated.
• Aim 8: A discussion of the impact of acid rain in different countries will help raise awareness of the environmental impact of this secondary pollutant and the political implications.
• Aim 8: Other means of reducing oxide production—bus use, car pooling, etc. could be discussed.
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