The Earths surface would be much colder than it is.
If carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor were absent from the atmosphere, the Earth would experience a dramatic drop in temperature, leading to a colder climate. These gases are crucial greenhouse gases, which trap heat and maintain the planet's temperature. Without them, the Earth would likely become inhospitable, with surface temperatures plummeting and potentially freezing over large areas, disrupting ecosystems and making it challenging for most forms of life to survive.
If there were no plants, the atmosphere would undergo significant changes. Without photosynthesis, which plants use to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, levels of carbon dioxide would rise while oxygen levels would decline. This would lead to increased greenhouse gas effects, contributing to climate change, and could result in a less breathable environment for most aerobic organisms. Ultimately, the absence of plants would disrupt ecosystems and diminish biodiversity.
The process called photosynthesis takes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and energy from the Sun's rays to separate out carbon and oxygen. The carbon is used to form the long organic molecules that make up the body of the plant, while the oxygen is mainly released back into the atmosphere. That's how we have oxygen to breathe, and without plants mammal life would never have been possible. Later the plant tissue (e.g. wood) can be burned, and this reunites the carbon and oxygen atoms to produce heat and carbon dioxide. This can also happen after millions of years after the plants have decomposd and fossilised, and this is the origin of the term 'fossil fuel'.
There would be no flame because fire needs oxygen to burn, and the Martian atmosphere consists mainly of Carbon Dioxide.
If producers were removed from the carbon cycle, there would be a significant disruption in the flow of carbon through ecosystems. Producers, such as plants and phytoplankton, absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, serving as the foundation of food webs. Without them, carbon would accumulate in the atmosphere, leading to increased greenhouse gas concentrations and exacerbating climate change. Additionally, the loss of producers would collapse food chains, resulting in the decline or extinction of herbivores and, subsequently, higher trophic levels.
There is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. You have been breathing it in all your life.
Carbon dioxide and methane are two greenhouse gases. They trap infrared heat rising from the earth's surface and help to keep the earth warm enough for life. If they were not around, the earth would be too cold for life.
nothing will happen at all
nothing will happen at all
There is no insulating LAYER of Carbon Dioxide round the Earth. The Carbon Dioxide is mixed up with the Oxygen and Nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and is not present in the atmosphere as a layer. If the absolute amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere increases, the Earth would get warmer.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. More of it in the earth's atmosphere means that more heat will be retained. This will, indeed is, causing global warming.
we will all die :)
it is released in the atmosphere
It will rise. The temperature of the atmosphere is rising already because carbon dioxide is increasing due to human activity.
It will rise. The temperature of the atmosphere is rising already because carbon dioxide is increasing due to human activity.
we will all suffocate due to no oxygen
The more carbon dioxide the hotter the planet gets. The hotter the planet gets the more wild fires happen. For every fire that occurs more carbon dioxide is released.