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

• The poisonous emissions from cars cause acid rain.

• Air currents carry toxic smoke from other countries' factories to Germany.

• The rivers of southwestern 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 the 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

Which solution to Germany's acid rain problem would be the most challenging?

• reducing automobile emissions

• increasing the use of wind and solar power

• getting other countries to stop using fossil fuels

• changing from coal-burning power plants to water-powered ones

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

• London Smog

• factory smoke

• use of fossil fuels

• 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 created after the Great Smog of 1952?

• a ban on coal fires

• an industrial revolution

• London's smokeless zones

• Kind Edward's ban on coal fires

Which solution began to reduce air pollution in the United Kingdom?

• the ban on coal fires

• acid rain in Western Europe

• the development of cleaner coal

• the link between asthma and vehicle exhaust

Which was an effect of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl?

• People and animals did not get sick.

• Drinking water was unsafe for months.

• Forests got healthier than 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.