Environmental Issues of Europe

How does nature play a role in Germany's acid rain problem?

• The poisonous emissions from cas cause acid rain.
• Air currents carry toxic smoke from other countries' factories to Germany.
• The rivers of wouthwestern Germany are used to make electricity for other countries.
• Germany has many buildings that are being destroyed by the chemicals in the acid rain.

What are them main causes of acid rain?

• Farms and forests
• Water power and electricity
• Coal burning factories and automobile emissions
• Solar power and wind turbines blowing the poison gases

Which situation is an effect of acid rain?

• Cleaner rivers
• Diseased forests
• Buildings and statues that look new
• Increased automobile manufacturing.

What is the main cause of air pollution in the United Kingdom TODAY?

• London smog
• Factory smoke
• Acid rain
• Automobile exhaust emissions

Which is one of the United Kingdom's solutions to the air pollution problem?

• Monitoring air quality
• Restricting driving miles
• Allowing factories to pollute without monitoring
• Keeping drivers from using gasoline in their cars

Which was as effect of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl?

• People and animals did not get sick.
• Drinking water was unsafe for months.
• Forests got healthier they they had been.
• All the nuclear power plants in the world were closed.

What steps were taken by the government to make the reactor safe?

• The reactor was taken apart.
• The reactor was buried in concrete.
• The government quit using nuclear power.
• The reactor was moved to the exclusion zone.

Why were other countries concerned about the Chernobyl disater?

• Chernobyl was immediately closed.
• The cost of nuclear power increased.
• Radioactive material fell on other countries.
• They did not have room for sick people in the hospitals.