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Which of the Following Statements About Acid Precipitation Is False

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Which of the following statements about acid precipitation is false?


A) Acids that enter the atmosphere primarily affect ecosystems located less than 100 kilometers from the source of the pollution.
B) Though lakes are very sensitive to acidification, their pH can return rapidly to normal values.
C) Regulation of emission sources has raised the pH of precipitation in many parts of the eastern United States in the last two decades.
D) Sulfuric acid and nitric acid from the burning of fossil fuels are the major causes of acid precipitation.
E) Organisms lost from freshwater ecosystems because of acidification may not return even decades after pH values have returned to normal.

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