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How is photosynthesis related to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and climate change?
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Photosynthesis is when trees and plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The carbon is separated and becomes part of the tree, and the oxygen is released. So a growing tree will store carbon all the time it is growing. More than half the weight of a tree is carbon. So photosynthesis by trees plays an important part in the Earth's carbon cycle.
Deforestation, the removal of forests, has been happening all over the world. When trees rot, or are burnt, they release the carbon (as carbon dioxide), and, of course, are no longer able to take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The carbon cycle is then disrupted, and more carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, builds up in the air. This (together with the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas)) is causing global warming and climate change.
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Which increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide contributes to global climate change?
Any increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide contributes to global climate change.
What atmospheric gas that enables green plants to carrey on the process of photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide and atmospheric nitrogen enable plants to carry on photosynthesis
What will be the effect of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to photosynthesis?
An increased level of atmospheric carbon can have a massive impact on photosynthesis. It can boost photosynthesis in plants for example.
Where do the carbon atoms come from to produce the certain sugar for photosynthesis?
From the animals around it breathing oxygen and converting it to carbon dioxide.
What atmospheric gas is thought to cause global climate warming?
Carbon Dioxide or CO2 is thought to be the cause of global warming. Carbon dioxide is one of the products from a combustion reaction.
Which increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide contributes to global climate change?
Any increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide contributes to global climate change.
What atmospheric gas that enables green plants to carrey on the process of photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide and atmospheric nitrogen enable plants to carry on photosynthesis
What does dioxide mean?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the gas that humans and other mammals exhale and which plants use for making sugar through the process of photosynthesis. In high concentrations, it can be harmful to the environment and cause undesirable climate change.
What are the atmospheric effects caused by carbon dioxide?
The plants Suck in the carbon dioxide then photosynthesis pops in and produces Oxygen.
What atmospheric gas enables green plants to carry on the process of photosynthesis?
Carbon Dioxide
True or false does atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations meaured at Mauna Loa the lowest during the summer?
true
Why are atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are expected to increASE doing the future?
Idk why don't you just google it dummy
Could artificial photosynthesis be used to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_photosynthesis
At optimum light intensity which atmospheric gas most directly influences the rate of photosynthesis?
carbon dioxide
How does the process of photosynthesis affect carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere during a typical year?
Photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide as a raw material where carbon dioxide is fixed into organic molecules. This process lowers the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The seasonal fluctuation of carbon dioxide levels during a year may be caused by increased photosynthesis during spring and summer.
What atmospheric gas that is a by-product of the light reaction of photosynthesis is essential to aerobic respiration?
An atmospheric gas; a by product of the light reaction of photosynthesis; essentials to aerobic respiration.
What will be the effect of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to photosynthesis?
An increased level of atmospheric carbon can have a massive impact on photosynthesis. It can boost photosynthesis in plants for example.
