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How acid rain forms and its effect on living things.

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Acid rain  Acid rain: When oxides of sulphur and oxides of nitrogen mix with rain water and forms sulphuric acid and nitric acid its is called acid rain. Causes of acid rain. We use fossils fuel in our automobiles and factories to power them by the burning of this fuel oxides of sulphur and oxides of nitrogen released in to our atmosphere and became the part of atmosphere . These are very dangerous air pollutant which cause of acid rain. How acid rain forms: When oxides of sulphur and oxides of nitrogen combines with rain water they form sulphuric acid and nitric acid .These acid comes into our earth in the form of acid rain .And we called this rain the acid rain because it is the mixture of water and acid . Effects of acid rain : Aquatic life:Acid rain badly effects our aquatic life because it changes the PH of water which was neutral before acid rain and after rain this water becomes acid because acid rain changes its PH. The aquatic life like fishes etc start to die .it badly ef...