How does acid rain affect fish and other aquatic life that live in the lakes?

Answer 1

Acid rain is rain that has been polluted by greenhouse gases and everyday pollution. It effects the environment as it destroys trees and hedgerows as it burns it all down.

Answer 2

Yes acid rain does affect the environment. It affects our food by killing all the fish in the water which means it cuts down our fish supply. It also affects the grass and then the cows eat the grass and then we eat the cows. It affects our water becomes one the water becomes too acidic it will be hard for us to drink it. It affects our air because it contains carbon dioxide which will leave traces in the air and it is not good for us to breathe in carbon dioxide. This is all I know

Answer 3

Aquatic - Fish populations are damaged in a number of ways. Acidic water disrupts their reproductive cycle. It also leaches aluminum from the soil into the water, clogging the fish's gills and altering their blood chemistry. As a lake becomes acidified, one species after another disappears. In addition to sensitive lakes, the Adirondack region includes thousands of miles of streams and rivers also sensitive to acidic deposition. Over half of these may become acidic during spring snowmelt.

Forests - Sulfur and nitrogen deposition have caused adverse impacts on certain highly sensitive forest ecosystems, most notably the high-elevation, spruce-fir forests in the eastern United States. Forests are damaged because acid precipitation drains nutrients from the soil. Excess nitrogen in the air also may adversely affect tree growth. Evidence of decreased growth and dieback has been found in the Adirondacks already.

Visibility - Dry acidic particles in the air lessen visibility. When winds blow from the southwest at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks, visibility can be reduced from 50 miles to fewer than 5 miles.

Materials - For materials and cultural resources, dry deposition (the deposition of particles and gases between rain events) is now considered to be more damaging to stone than wet deposition (the deposition of particles and gases during rain events).

Human Health - High concentrations of fine-particulate sulfate and nitrate can enter the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, resulting in disease or even death.

Metals such as Mercury and cadmium from soil deposits in lakes, streams, and reservoirs can accumulate in the tissues of fish, making them toxic to humans.

Metals also can be leached from the soil into reservoirs, or from old lead and copper pipes directly into home water supplies, causing serious illness.

Answer 4

It kills them.