Acid Rain

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How does acid rain affect aquatic life?

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What Is Reverse Brayton Cycle?

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Why does rain water have pH less than 7 ?

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The type of pollution which is likely to affect Taj Mahal in Agra to a greater extent is

1. air pollution

2. water pollution

3. soil pollution

4. noise pollution

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When $S{O}_2$ is dissolved in water, acid rain containing Sulphuric acid is formed. The acid rain attacks marble statues and damages them. Write the balanced chemical equation for these.

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What kinds of energy transformations take place in a diesel engine?

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pH if acid rain is sometimes as low as 2. Explain.

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Give the composition, causes and affects of acid rain.

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What is the cause of acid rain ? Give any two impacts of acid rain.

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Explain the methods of preventing acid rain.

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The substance used for disinfecting water is/ are

1. Ozone

2. Chlorine

3. U.V rays

4. All of these

Q. What is a paste, is it same as toothpaste? What is plasma?

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The Taj Mahal at Agra is getting damaged due to acid rain. Why?

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What is acid rain? How is acid rain damaging our heritage monument “Taj Mahal”?

Q. When rain is accompanied by a thunderstorm, the collected rain water will have a $pH$ value:

1. slightly lower than that of rain water without thunderstorm
2. slightly higher than that when the thunderstorm is not there
3. uninfluenced by occurrence of thunderstorm
4. which depends upon the amount of dust in air

Q. What is acid rain

Q. Assertion :Normally rain water has a pH of 5.6. Reason: $H^{+}$ ions are formed by the reaction of rain water with carbon dioxide present in the air.

1. Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion
2. Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion
3. Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
4. Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect

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Which of the following environmental effects are caused due to acid rain?

1. The ability of plants to perform photosynthesis is destroyed.
2. Demolish greenery in the region.
3. Turns water bodies acidic.
4. Balances acidity of the environment.

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Taj Mahal is damaged due to acid rain. This phenomenon is called ___ .

1. Stone corrosion

2. Stone cancer

3. Marble cancer

4. Acid cancer

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Which of the following gases would be responsible for acid rain?

1. $N{O}_2$

2. $N{H}_3$

3. $CaO$

4. $S{O}_3$

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Which of the following environmental effects are caused due to acid rain?

1. The ability of plants to perform photosynthesis is destroyed.
2. Demolish greenery in the region.
3. Turns water bodies acidic.
4. Balances acidity of the environment.

Q. An excess of nonmetallic oxides in air is harmful.

1. True
2. False

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Taj is damaged due to acid rain. This phenomenon is called___.

1. Stone corrosion

2. Stone cancer

3. Acid cancer

4. Marble cancer

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Excess pollutants emitted by a textile factory located on the banks of river Yamuna results in:

1. Evaporation

2. Acid rain

3. Condensation

4. Decolouration of Taj Mahal

Q. Sulphur dioxide reacts with water to give:

1. $H_{2}S$
2. $H_{2}S{O}_4$
3. $H_{2}S{O}_3$
4. $H_2$ + $S{O}_3$

Q. The gases in air which form acid rain are ____.

1. CO${}_x$ and CFC
2. CFC and SO${}_x$
3. NO${}_x$ and SO${}_x$
4. CFC and NO${}_x$

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The dissolution of a few oxides in rainwater affects its pH. This ultimately causes acid rain across the world. Which of the following is not true about acid rain?​

1. Its pH is less than 5.6.
2. It damages buildings and metallic structures.
3. It affects aquatic life and usually kills the organisms in it.
4. It improves the nutritional quality of soil.

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Marble cancer refers to:

1. damage of marbles due to normal rain

2. damage of marbles due to acid rain

3. shining of marbles due to acid rain

4. darkening of marbles due to acid rain

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when distilled water is stored in a sealed glass vessel for a long time, it leaves itching on the surface of glass why?

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Why does rain water containing Carbonic acid have lower ph than the rainwater containg sulpuric acid ?