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Acid rain occurs in North America, and other places as well because of emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. These react with water to produce nitric acid and sulfuric acid respectively.
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What water cycle process produces most of the rain in North America?
precipitation
Does Jupiter have clouds and acid rain?
Jupiter has clouds, but not acid rain.
What are the ill effects of acid rain to biotic and abiotic components of the earth?
Acid rain causes many ill effects of acid rain to biotic and abiotic components of the earth. Acid rain erodes abiotic components and can kill or mutate biotic components.
Why is acid rain bad?
Acid rain is bad because it causes serious health problems like birth defects and lung diseases. it can also cause cancer. acid rain also destroys monuments and kills fish. many forests are destroyed by acid rain. acid rain pollutes rivers and streams and erodes stonework.
What acid is present in normal rain?
Carbonic acid.
What time of the year does acid rain occur?
Acid rain does not depend on seasons except that some times of the year have more precipitation (snow, rain, sleet, hail) than others.
Does acid rain occur in the desert?
To have acid rain, you first have to have rain. And deserts are kind famous for not having much rain. So yeah, it CAN happen. But places with more rain will get more acid rain.
In which country acid rain can be found?
Bulgaria, Italy, Czech Republic, North America, China, Eastern Europe, and the Uk, all have acid rain in the country.Mainly all the large countries with a large population, with large problems with pollution have acid rain in their country.
Does acid rain occur in a tornado?
Whenever there's rain, there's a chance that the rain water is a bit acidic. So yeah, you can get acid rain in tornadoes.
Does nitric and sulfuric acid occur naturally in rain?
no
In which atmospheric layer does acid rain occur?
Troposphere
How does rock abrasion occur?
by erosion and acid rain?
What can be affected by acid rain?
in areas such as the north east of America where there are lots of factories the trees, plants and water will be affected by acid rain in the water fish and other animals that live in water can be affected by the acid rain plants and trees can die from acid rain but the rain isn't acid enough to effect humans though it will over time erode stone and brick in buildings. if you mean where are the places effected by acid rain as i said above north east of America, the Southeastern section of Canada, the Toronto-Hamilton area, Central Europe and Scandanavia example Norway, Finland and Asia example India and china.
What is the personification to the acid rain?
The acid rain smudged the forest in America. The acid rain actually kills the forest, not smudge. It looks like the acid rain is smudging but to not take it literally, it's a personification.
What is weathering by acid rain?
Acidic rain causes chemical weathering to occur. Dissolution in particular.
What is acid rain weathering?
Acidic rain causes chemical weathering to occur. Dissolution in particular.
What have the rain forests of south America and Africa been impacted by?
acid rain
