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• Warm- Up• Review SS6G8a.b assessment• Europe’s Environmental Concerns SS6G9• We will take notes Cornell note style Page 8 in
your notebook.• THINK PAIR SHARE
WHAT ARE EUROPE’S ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
•Acid Rain in Germany•Air Pollution in the United Kingdom•Nuclear Disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine
ACID RAIN
•Where?• Germany
• Causes?• Smoke from factories and power plants, car and bus
exhaust. Air Currents carries the toxic smoke into Germany and other European countries.
ACID RAIN
• Effect?• Destroyed Germany’s Black Forest• Acid rain “eating” through statues and buildings• Pollutes Rivers (Danube and Rhine Rivers)
• Other Countries Impacted:• Countries to the EAST of Germany are impacted by
Germany’s pollution• Germany is impacted by the U.K. pollution.
Acid Rain
• What is being done to stop it?• Southern Germany starting to use Hydroelectric Energy
for power.• German Govt. passed laws to reduce automobile
emissions, and increase clean energy.• Wind Turbines and Solar Energy
Acid Rain
AIR POLLUTION
• Where?• United Kingdom
• Causes?• Gases from automobile and factory exhaust.• London known for SMOG! Long history of Air
Pollution
• Effect?• Burns lungs, eyes, nose, and endangers human life.• Young and Old forced indoors• Blackens building and threatens wildlife
Air Pollution
• Other Countries Impacted?• U.K. is in the top ten in the world in harmful industrial
emissions.• Air Pollution in U.K. causes Acid Rain in Western Europe.
Air Pollution
• What is being done to stop it?• History of trying to stop it as well… King Edward I tried to
ban coal fires. • Govt. created smokeless zones, where only smokeless
fuels could be used.• Laws created to make car companies produce cars that
don’t pollute as much.
Air Pollution
NUCLEAR DISASTER
• Where?• Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine
• Causes?• Nuclear Power is very complicated, and extreme caution
is needed in order to safely produce power or nuclear fuel.
• This caution was not taken at Chernobyl
NUCLEAR DISASTER
• Effect?• Acute Radiation Syndrome, Birth Defects, Abandoned
Cities, decrease in the use of Nuclear Power, and Cancer
• Impact on Other Countries?• Radioactive Material entered the air and fell on Northern
Europe and Scandinavia
NUCLEAR DISASTER
• What is Being Done to Stop It?• Less countries using Nuclear Power (Nuclear Power is
actually pretty clean)….• Safety Increased at Nuclear Power Plants
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