Question

1) Explain how acid deposition may develop from a primary air pollutant released from cars.

2) Compare and contrast photochemical smog and industrial smog

3) Identify a federal agency responsible for enforcing air quality standards.

Answer 1

Acid deposition, commonly known as acid rain, occurs when emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels and other industrial processes undergo complex chemical reactions in the atmosphere and fall to the earth as wet deposition (rain, snow, cloud, fog) or dry deposition (dry particles, gas).