Europe’s Environmental Problems

Participation grade for today… You must take notes during the powerpoint You will write these in your Composition Notebook

Air Pollution Causes: industry, power plants, and cars Use of coal and other fossil fuels as for of energy SMOG: air pollution that looks like a dark fog caused by chemical particles in the air mixing with moisture in the air.

Air Pollution Effects: damaging buildings, harms plants and the atmosphere, also causes health problems for humans (asthma, other sicknesses, many deaths) It affects other countries, causing acid rain and polluted

Example: United Kingdom UK is very densely populated (more people = more pollution) Winds carry pollution from the UK to other parts of Europe where is become Acid Rain European Union has been pressuring them to improve this

Acid Rain: Caused by these…

Acid Rain Causes: car emissions, factories, other air pollution Effects: kills animals, pollutes water, kills forests and other plants, destroys buildings

Example: Germany Air Pollution from The UK was actually causing acid rain in Germany and other countries The Black Forest is dying (Almost half of trees in forest were damaged)

Acid Rain: Results in this…

Germans afraid of this…

…becoming this…