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What ways have you added excess carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
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∙ 9y ago
Excess, or additional carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere only by the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), and a very small amount from volcanic activity.
All other carbon dioxide moves in and out of the oceans, atmosphere and land as part of the normal carbon cycle, which includes the growing and dying of vegetation.
Fossil fuels release carbon dioxide that was taken out of the atmosphere (when the vegetation grew) 300 million years ago, so it is extra.
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How have humans added excess amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere?
People added carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere by polluting with fires, carbon dioxide from cars, smoke, and other things that pollute the Earth's atmosphere. Also, when we pollute the atmosphere gets thinner and more heat is coming in and the ice in the poles would melt and increase the water level in the ocean.
In the last 100 years what has added excess carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
Power PlantsMachineryCarsThe burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, which releases extra carbon dioxide that has been underground for 300 million years.
What was one way that early microbes did not change Earth?
They added carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Does the greenhouse effect increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
No. The greenhouse effect keeps the earth warm. Extra carbon dioxide added to it is causing global warming.
What is added into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels?
Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas added to the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
How man contribute to the formation of the atmosphere?
Well I know that the atmosphere has carbon dioxide in it, and when we breath out we release carbon dioxide that could be then added to the atmosphere.
What is added to the atmosphere during resiration?
Carbon dioxide
How have humans added excess amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere?
People added carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere by polluting with fires, carbon dioxide from cars, smoke, and other things that pollute the Earth's atmosphere. Also, when we pollute the atmosphere gets thinner and more heat is coming in and the ice in the poles would melt and increase the water level in the ocean.
In the last 100 years what has added excess carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
Power PlantsMachineryCarsThe burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, which releases extra carbon dioxide that has been underground for 300 million years.
What are two ways in which carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere?
Respiration by animals is one of the ways through which carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere. The other way is through burning fuels that are carbon-based.
What was one way that early microbes did not change Earth?
They added carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Does the greenhouse effect increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
No. The greenhouse effect keeps the earth warm. Extra carbon dioxide added to it is causing global warming.
What is added into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels?
Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas added to the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
How have humans added an excess amount of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide is produced as a by-product of the burning or combustion of almost all types of fuels, including gasoline, natural gas (methane) and coal. People have been burning a lot of these things, in recent centuries. Because the carbon in fossil fuels has been out of circulation for 300 million years, releasing it now is overloading the carbon cycle, and causing the excess.
What are the two ways in which carbon dioxide is added to the?
Respiration by animals is one of the ways through which carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere. The other way is through burning fuels that are carbon-based.
What happens to the atmosphere during cellular respiration?
oxygen is added to the atmosphere when plants take in carbon dioxide during cellular respiration
Which greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere when coal oil and natural gas are burned?
Carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere;here when coal oil and natural gas are burned?
