Acid rain

An acid

• An acid is a substance that neutralizes alkalis
• Dissolves some metals
• Turns litmus red
• A sour-tasting liquid

Chemicals that make acid rain

• A mixture of wet and dry deposition
• Natural sources such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation

Where the chemicals come from in acid rain

• The acid chemicals added
• into dust or smoke
• in dry areas

how acid rain effects the environment

• when they fall to ground through dry depositition
• stick to ground, buildings, cars, and trees
• washed off through rainstorms 
• this leads to increased runoff
• the water runoff makes resluting mixture more acidic