Quiz-Busters - Environmental Chemistry

Environmental Chemistry

Weathering, acid rain etc, suitable for use with QCA unit 9G.
What P is a measure of how acid or alkaline something is?. What A is the opposite of acid?. What R is broken down by weathering to make part of soil?. What C is produced by burning fossil fuels, and by respiration, and makes rain water acidic?. What F is burned to release energy, and comes from things that lived a long time ago?. What N is what an alkali does to an acid?. What M is the name for chemicals in the soil that are needed by plants?. What S means something will dissolve?. What T means poisonous?. What L is a common white rock that is affected a lot by aicd rain?. What G is an effect that causes global warming?. What H is a mixture of rotting plant material and animal remains found in soils?. What B is a type of weathering caused by plants and animals?. What E is the movement of pieces of rock by wind, water etc.?. What U is a dye that changes colour depending on the pH?. What W is the break up of rocks into smaller pieces by natural processes?. What F allows solutions to pass through, but keeps back insoluble residues?. What O is the last part of the name of a compound containing oxygen?. What G is a hard, igneous rock?. What T is measured with a thermometer?.