Air Pollution

By Group A 
What is Air
Pollution?
• It is a type of pollution caused naturally
or man-made.
• It is caused by many factors such
as forest fire and deforestation.
What causes Air Pollution?
It is basically
caused by humans Some man-made
most of the time reason and natural
but it can be reasons are as
caused by humans follows:
too.

Man-
Natural- Dust
Made- Deforestati
Storms, Forest
on,
Fires and
urbanisation, indut
Volcanic Eruption
rialisation and
s
burning of fuels.
Diseases
caused by Air
Pollution
• Many dreadful diseases are
caused by Air Pollution.
• Some of them are as
follows:-
• Lung Cancer, Asthama,
Bronchitis etc.

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Acid Rain
• What's Acid Rain??
• Well basically Acid rain is also caused by
the Air Pollution. 
• Acid rain occurs when Sulphur
dioxide and nitrogen oxide gases present in
the air and  react with the water.
• When rain is there these gases get easily
dissolved in water but, Acid rain harm
living organisms, waterbodies and
buildings.
What • Well the main reason for Acid rain is
fossil fuel like petrol and coal used

causes in vehicles.
• Power plants are also responsible for

Acid rain? Acid Rain.

Now how can we control
this air pollution?
Controlling air pollution is mammoth or impossible task. But at least
we can reduce man-made pollution. Simple tasks for controlling air
pollution are given below:
 Use cycle for short distances and avoid using car.
 Use public transport to reduce the number of vehicles on the road.
 Cars with catalytic converters must be made compulsory in cities
 All buses to run on CNG must be made compulsory.
 Avoid deforestation and encourage afforestation.
 Use tall chimneys in factories to avoid smoke polluting the city air.
 Use wind and solar energy instead of fossil fuels.
 Avoid sudden acceleration and braking.
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