Question

Pollution affects photosynthesis .Justify the statement

Answer 1

Pollution in whatever form has negative impacts on the environment and the plants that reside in it. Pollution has many sources, from direct discharge of waste oil into waterways to air pollution from automobile exhaust. Some effects are short term and easily mitigated. Other effects are long term, with pollutants persisting in the environment or accumulating in plant tissues. Photosynthesis is an essential process within the ecosystem. Using sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, plants manufacture food and energy in a chemical process which occurs in plant leaves.

Answer 2

The harmful gasses and the smoke from the industries and the decaying material when passes over the plants destroy the leaves and the other parts of a plant. This is then affecting the process of photosynthesis.  Acid rain is another factor of the pollution that gives harm to the plants. Due to the pollution, the soil also gets polluted. When the plants used that soil for the photosynthesis it badly affects the process.