1) What causes acidification of oceans and freshwater bodies? What are the consequences of the same? Examine. (250 Words)

reasons for acidification of oceans and freshwater bodies are
1. CO2 intake due to release by thermal power plants and other polluters
2. anthropological factors that emit CO2 for e.g. human population
3. thermal disharge by industries into oceans and fresh water bodies
4. geographical contiguous region of oceans, lead to further dilution of CO2and more CO2 accepting potential
5. economical factors such as nations which are oil and gas dependent, are extracting more oil an release more CO2 in distillation process, these being gulf nations, lead to gasification of oceans
Consequences are
1. affecting aquatic life like fish, krills in atarctica
2. degassing phenomen also acoour, leading to increase CO2 concentration in the artmosphere
3. affect coatsal cites and their livelihood
4. warming of oceans, in some way contribute towards el nino
5. cultural affects: acidification leads to more scientific demonstrator experiments, mostly carried by scandividain countries loacted alongside arctic ocean
6. also affect landscapes such as himalayas, by affecting temperatures of indian ocean  and hence tempertaure difference affect in a way monsoon and thus landscapes