Question

1.Soils vary in their acidity and in the amount of buffering compounds contained in them. Suppose that

acid rain falls in an area where the soil has a high buffering capacity. Do you expect that there will be

much effect on the soil organisms living in the area? Explain your answer.

2.What will happen when two water molecules bump into each other when the two oxygen atoms are facing each other (try it with the model)? Why?

Answer 1

1)When the soil of high buffering capacity gets acid rain then the difference in pH gets neutralised and plants aren't exposed to harmful sidden pH Change which favours their growth. Soil organisms would also survive in such soil which can buffer the pH.

2)When two oxygen atoms of water bump into each other facing this way they would repel each other due to high electronegativity of Oxygen atoms.