Acid Rain Webquest
Acid rain is often in the news. Just what is it?
Use the following websites to answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What is acid rain?
2. What chemicals cause acid rain?
3. Where do these chemicals come from?
4. What is the pH range of acid rain?
5. What are the harmful effects of acid rain? (at least 2)
6. At least one other interesting fact you found – site the source.
While all of the sites have some of this information, I have also given you a particular
question for some of the sites. You may want to scan all of the sites first to find those
which you find most interesting.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/acidrain/2.html
http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/Water/FreshWater/acidrain.html
7. Why is acid rain more of a problem in some places than others. What locations
did the article mention? Why?
http://www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain/acidfact.html
8. What is the pH range of normal rain?
http://www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain/kids.html
Evaluation:
Answers are thorough and clear.