The Effects Of Acid Rain On Lakes And Trees

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damages the trees through the soil by releasing metals that harm them even further (Lucas, 72).

Acid rain makes the trees lose their leaves, so when the trees try to regrow their leaves, buds

come instead, this process is called a panic shoot (M. 15). Large land areas which used to be

covered with forests are now gone, dead or dying (Baines, 21). Around the 1980’s more than half

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of the trees in Germany had signs of acid rain damage (Edmonds, 14). Now it is known that acid

rain is one of the biggest contributing factors in the death and deterioration of nature.

Lakes support thousands of species of marine life, that’s why it’s a shame that they are

constantly being poisoned by acid rain. Scientists have studied the effects on acid rain in lakes

for several decades (Lucas, 49). Scientist use their observations to determine whether lakes are

acidous or not. People can tell if there is acid rain in a lake ...

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