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The greenhouse effect is a natural process that keeps the Earth warm. Without it, the earth would be unable to retain enough heat to sustain life.
The enhanced greenhouse effect is caused by the all the extra greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane etc) that we put into the air from burning fossil fuels and agriculture (cattle belches). These all trap more heat and radiation from the sun than is normally required. The earth radiates infrared energy from the sunlight that reaches the surface which should escape off into space, but due to the enhanced greenhouse effect, this radiation is trapped. Therefore, the overall temperature of the globe rises.
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Global warming is the increase of the average temperature of the earths atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is caused by high concentrations of methane, co2 and water vapour in the earth's atmosphere . These gases occur naturally (natural greenhouse effect) however due to human activity (cars, burning fossil fuels, deforestation) more of these gases are released, and this enhances the greenhouse effect (so it is called the enhanced greenhouse effect.)
The Greenhouse effect refers to the change in the thermal equilibrium temperature of a planet or moon by the presence of an atmosphere containing gas that absorbs infrared radiation.[1] Greenhouse gases, which include water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane, warm the atmosphere by efficiently absorbing thermal infrared radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, by the atmosphere itself, and by clouds. As a result of its warmth, the atmosphere also radiates thermal infrared in all directions, including downward to the Earth's surface. Thus, greenhouse gases trap heat within the surface-troposphere system.[2][3][4][5] This mechanism is fundamentally different from the mechanism of an actual greenhouse, which instead isolates air inside the structure so that heat is not lost by convection and conduction, as discussed below. The greenhouse effect was discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824, first reliably experimented on by John Tyndall in the year 1858 and first reported quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in his 1896 paper.[6] In the absence of the greenhouse effect, the Earth's average[7] surface temperature of 14 °C (57 °F) would be about -18 °C (-0.4 °F), the Black body temperature of the Earth [8]. Anthropogenic global warming (AGW), a recent warming of the Earth's lower atmosphere as evidenced by the global mean temperature anomaly trend [9], is believed to be the result of an "enhanced greenhouse effect" mainly due to human-produced increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere[10] and changes in the use of land[11]. The greenhouse effect is one of several factors which affect the temperature of the Earth. Other positive and negative feedbacks dampen or amplify the greenhouse effect.
Greenhouse effect: getting carbon derivatives out of the earth, burning it and putting it into the air as carbon dioxyde. This increases the amount of carbon dioxyde in the air. photosynthesis. Plants can absorb carbon dioxyde from the air, transforming it into carbon derivatives. Plants need light to do that. When the plant dies or when it is burned, the carbon dioxyde is released again into the air. So a plant or a forest cannot reduce the amount of CO2 in the air. The only way to do that is cutting a tree and putting it into the ground. If the oxygen cannot reach the tree, the CO2 cannot be released.
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What are the difference in cause and effect?
the different between cause and effect.... cause=what cause the problem or what cause it to become a problem effect=what effect did it have on it hope that help u(:
What is the difference between primary and side effect?
Primary is the main thing that happens. The side effect is what happens because of the Primary thing.
What is the difference between cosy and noesy?
NOESY Nuclear Overhauser Effect SpectroscopyCorrelation spectroscopy (COSY)
Rising sea levels and changes in weather patterns are possible outcomes of what?
The greenhouse effect
What does the greenhouse effect refer to?
Global Warming and Heat
Why is photosynthesis the only process that can combat the greenhouse effect?
The greenhouse effect does not have to be combatted, as it usefully keeps the earth warm. But we have to stop the enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is causing global warming. The only process that can combat the enhanced greenhouse effect is photosynthesis, trees and plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Plants counteract the greenhouse effect by removing what during photosynthesis.?
Plants counteract the greenhouse effect by removing carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. This process helps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mitigating global warming and climate change.
How is the greenhouse effect related to photosynthesis?
The only relation there is between the two is carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. Too much of it in the atmosphere causes the 'greenhouse effect' whereby the earth warms. In the photosynthesis process CO2 is captured from the atmosphere and, with the help of sunlight (and water in the case of plants) turned into organic compounds. A waste product of this process is oxygen.
Does nitrogen help slow down the greenhouse effect?
No. Nitrogen, which makes up 78% of the atmosphere, makes no difference to the greenhouse effect.
How does photosynthesis moderate the greenhouse effect?
Photosynthesis helps to moderate the greenhouse effect by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converting it into oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. This reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, which helps to lessen the overall greenhouse effect and limit global warming.
Photosyntheic organisms may counter the greenhouse effect by?
By removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
How are ozone and greenhouse alike?
Ozone is a greenhouse gas. However there is little connection between the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer.
What is the difference between the Greenhouse Effect and fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy sources that can be burned to get energy. The Greenhouse Effect is, in part, the result of burning fossil fuels. In this example, fossil fuels would be a causative agent that creates an effect on the environment, specifically, the Earth's atmosphere.
How are ozone and greenhouse gases alike?
Ozone is a greenhouse gas. However there is little connection between the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer.
How does photosynthesis help minimise the enhanced greenhouse effect?
¨During the photosynthesis process the plant takes in some carbon dioxide from the air and uses it during the rest of the process. When the plant inhales the carbon dioxide it means that there is less of it in the air. This means that there is less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the enhanced greenhouse effect is reduced.
Trapping of heat in the earths atmosphere by certain gases is known as the?
greenhouse effect
Which process reverses the greenhouse gas effect in the atmosphere?
Photosynthesis, where plants absorb carbon dioxide, store the carbon and release the oxygen.
