All About Acid Rain

All About Acid Rain http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/education/site_kids/lucy/1.htm

1. What are the three types of fossil fuels?

2. From what are fossil fuels made?

3. When burned, what do fossil fuels create?

4. Why are fossil fuels a problem?

5. How are the wind and rain involved in the pollution process?

6. Name two ways people can prevent acid rain. To be used with “Weather Smart: Ozone and Pollution.”

7. A gas is something that can float in the air and change ______.

8. Ozone covers the entire Earth, like a ______. 9. The ozone is helpful to humans because it blocks the sun’s ultra-violet ______. 10. Why is the ozone hole a bad thing?

11. ______is what probably causes holes in the ozone layer.

12. Acid rain is ______because it can kill trees and fish.

13. The best thing we can do to make our air cleaner is to not use as much ______or ______.

14. Sunlight can be used as ______power; this is a clean, renewable energy source used to heat water and charge batteries. 15. Name one way YOU can reduce energy use.