Statement: Acid rain can cause damage to buildings, historical monuments, plants and animals.
Reason: Acid rain contains acids like nitric acids, which corrodes the upper layers of the buildings and monuments and damages them.
Statement: Acid rain can cause damage to buildings, historical monuments, plants and animals.
Reason: Acid rain contains acids like nitric acids, which corrodes the upper layers of the buildings and monuments and damages them.
The correct option is D Both the statement and the reason are correct and the reason is the
correct explanation of the statement.
The rain becomes acidic because carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide (which are released into the air as pollutants) dissolve in rain drops to form carbonic acid, sulphuric acid and nitric acid respectively. Acid rain can cause damage to buildings, historical monuments because they react with the upper layers of the buildings or monuments and corrode them, they also damage plants and animals by damaging the upper layer of their skin.
Both the statement and the reason are correct and the reason is the correct explanation of the statement.
The rain becomes acidic because carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide (which are released into the air as pollutants) dissolve in rain drops to form carbonic acid, sulphuric acid and nitric acid respectively. Acid rain can cause damage to buildings, historical monuments because they react with the upper layers of the buildings or monuments and corrode them, they also damage plants and animals by damaging the upper layer of their skin.
