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Is the greatest source of air pollution volcanic eruptions or burning fossil fuels?
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∙ 12y ago
Definitely the burning of fossil fuels. Volcanoes emit around 100,000,000 tons of CO2 a year. Man-made emissions of CO2 comes to about 10,000,000,000 tons of CO2 per year. So volcanoes emit around 1/100th of CO2 that we do.
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Most air pollution comes from what?
Man made pollution - Burning Fossil Fuels, including clear burning of rainforest land. Naturally occurring pollution (if it can be called that) - Volcanic eruptions and wildfires.
What is the main source of sulfur dioxide?
Volcanic eruptions and burning of sulfur containing coals.
What type of rain is harmful to living and nonliving things?
Acid rain. Which can be produced either by industrial pollution (mostly sulfuric acid from coal burning), internal combustion engine pollution (mostly nitric acid), or large scale volcanic eruptions (mostly sulfuric acid).
How do volcanic eruptions affect your forests?
Mass burning , poisoined by toxic gasses and destruction by lava , or laharr[ mudslides] .
Is it true that most acid precipitation forms as the result of volcanic eruptions?
No. Acid precipitation nowadays is mostly the result for the burning of fossil fuels.
Is pumice fly ash?
No. Fly ash is ash left over from burning coal. Pumice is a porous rock produce during some volcanic eruptions.
What are reasons of air pollution?
Industry (burning of coal), smog from cars, cattle (methane), volcanic activity, dust storms, pesticides.
Do volcanic eruptions increase global warming?
Usually not. The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by volcanoes is very small compared to our emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. In fact, the dust and ash emitted by volcanic eruptions often shields the earth from the sun's rays for days and sometimes weeks, bringing a cooling effect.
Which energy source causes the greatest air pollution?
Burning fossil fuels: mainly coal and oil.
How is carbon dioxide returned the atmosphere?
Cellular respiration by producers and consumers returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.-Cellular respiration-Volcanic eruptions-Human interference (burning of fossil fuels)
How is carbon dioxide returned to the. atmosphere?
Cellular respiration by producers and consumers returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.-Cellular respiration-Volcanic eruptions-Human interference (burning of fossil fuels)
Are volcanic eruptions caused by the movements of tectonic plates?
Usually, volcanic eruptions above water are the result of a magma-plume burning through a spot in the Earth's crust, or by the rising part of a magma convection cell. Such conditions are often found near the edges of the continental plates. There are also spots where the Earth's crust is so thin that magma breaks through even without there being a plume, such as near oceanic ridges. Most of the volcanic eruptions on this planet take place under water, near oceanic ridges.
