rehabilitating+lakes+-Ram+Rasalingam

Ever wonder why people always say, “Don’t swim in the lake?" or "Don't drink water from the lake?" Generally it was just always assumed that the water in that lake was dirty and not good for us to use safely. But recently I learned that there was a time when you could actually drink straight out of the lake and be perfectly fine. Ever since Our lake water has mixed in with acid rain that has formed from our atmosphere, our lakes have become contaminated, and the wildlife near the lakes, are suffering. Acid rain is the product of the poisonous gases emitted by our cars into the atmosphere, and then ending up increasing our lakes' ph. level, making it more acidic. The surfaces of our lakes also play a part in the neutralizing effect. Some of the environmental impact that acid rain has on our lakes are that the living organisms that live in our lakes cannot continue to live in a toxic lake. They can only take a certain amount of pH in their habitat. The limestone help to neutralize the effects of the acid rain, but unfortunately most of our lakes are not composed of limestone. Mainly our lake's surfaces are composed of granite, which does not react as much as limestone and doesn’t not neutralize our lakes. Some alternatives to rehabilitating our lakes is to add calcium oxide, or lime. This method does not last for a long period of time, and to fully make our lakes pure again, we have to get rid of the pollutants. Some of the social impacts that unclean lake has, is a more industial type of society that doesnt have time to clean up their mess. Our lakes being pulloted, discourages tourists and other ciztens from visiting our lakes, and drawing attention from them. = = =__**ACID RAIN**__= //What it looks like:// It can be formed both naturally and by man. Some natural ways such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation. Some examples of man-made sources are emissions from our cars and buring fossil fuels.
 * __Rehabilitating Lakes__**
 * //Formation//**: Acid rain is a term that is used to describe the end effect that our suplfur and carbon emission have on our astmoshpere.


 * Effects of Acid rain:**.
 * [[image:http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/Rain.gif width="216" height="133" align="right"]]//killing the leaves and bark of trees//
 * //pollution lakes//
 * //killing living organisms that live in the lake.//
 * //kills forests//
 * //the oxygen that we breathe may become contaminated.//


 * Ways to help stop acid rain:**
 * //Stop using the car for simple reasons//
 * //try to reuse recycle and reduce as much as possible.//
 * //dont waste electricity//
 * //turn off the air conditioner when not nessecary//

=__**DIAGRAMS**__= //The following diagrams are to show the process of how our lakes get contaminated with acid rain//

As you can see in this diagram, it shows how the carbon enters our astmosphere, and how it is transferred into our plants and lakes as precipatition. This diagram is an accurate ptrayal of our current system and it shows that we have alot of work to do, especailly with the corperations. The factories that deal with mass production, are the ones that deal the most damage. To make our planet more cleaner, we will have to get rid of them, which will effect our economy. A permant solution will have to be impemented, in order for our lakes to become clean again.

This diagram focuses on showing how the acid rain effects our water system. The part that raises concerns is that there are many ways for the acid rain to infect our entire biosphere and that would be extremely disastrous because humans need water to survive. Our future generation are going to pay for our lack of care and there will be consquences for our actions.

This diagram is to clarify the relationship between gas emissions from factories, and acid rain. The clouds are full of carbon, and release them in from of acid rain. All though acid rain has been indentified as a problem, not much is being done to solve it, we need to work together to end this problem.

we can protest the excessive usage of carbon, and save our rain forests by demanding that all those big corperations to stop cutting our forests. Once our forests are gone, then we will be in a huge load of trouble for the whole human race.
 * //Why we should act://** our world is slowly getting more and more polluted, as every day goes by, and it is up to us and future generations to make sure that we have a clean planet. Every tiny effort counts, and it will all add up in the end. Acid rain is a problem, but like all problems there is a solution.

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 * Batteries take over a 100 years to decompose.
 * It is possible to start a fire, when a lot of batteries are placed together.
 * A battery is made of chemicals such as NH4Cl, ZnCl2, MnO2 and zinc (Zn).

http://cedarbraechemistry.wikispaces.com/5.1+Thanoja-+Combustion+of+Hydrocarbons


 * Hydrocarbon combustion occurs when hydrocarbon molecules and oxygen molecules come together
 * There are two types of combustion reactions, complete combustion and incomplete combustion.
 * Complete combustions are very useful because they release most of their energy and have the cleanest and hottest flames

http://cedarbraechemistry.wikispaces.com/13.bioremediation+Pavuthira


 * Bioremdiation is the branch of biotechnology that uses biological steps to affect environmental problems. **
 * Micro-organisms are used to change harmful substances to non toxic substances. **
 * Scientists have discovered that different plants and micro-oraganisms can consume or absorb toxins from the environment. **

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