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Read the passage and answer the given question. Sarvesh noticed that during rainy season, the leaves of the plants in his school get burnt. His teacher told him that all this is due to acid rain.

(a) What is acid rain?

(b) What are the harmful effects of acid rain.

(c) What efforts can you do to reduce this acid rain?

Answer:

(a) The gases such as sulphur dioxide \[(S{{O}_{2}})\] and nitrogen dioxide \[(N{{O}_{2}})\] react with water vapor in the atmosphere to form sulphuric acid and nitric acid and constitute the acid rain.

(b) The harmful effects of acid rain are as follows:

(i) It harms the plant life; as leaves and other parts of the plant get burnt

(ii) It corrodes the marbles \[(CaC{{O}_{3}})\]of the monuments; which results in its yellowing.

(iii) It affects the animal life also.

(c)  (i) We can use cleaner fuels like LPG and CNG.

(ii) Chimneys should be well equipped with air niters.