The Effects of Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels on Warmer Conditions Background information. Carbon dioxide is a gas that is released with many things, including combustion, respiration, and weathering issues. Carbon dioxide is said to have issues with global warming, as it forms a ‘blanket’ in the atmosphere that slows down the escape of excess heat into space. It does this by absorbing infra red radiation and remitting it as heat. This travels back down to earth and continues the global warming effect. We need some atmosphere around the planet so that we can live in comfortable temperatures, but too much heat trapped in the planet causes the globe to heat up and the temperature will be too hot to allow humans to live. It also has direct consequences for the atmosphere around us and around in our habitats. It will be too hot for our food to grow properly so we won’t be able to have the correct diet. The gases which form the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases, as they form a green house effect by trapping the hot air in. [IMAGE]Hypothesis. As carbon dioxide is classed as a greenhouse gas, I would expect the temperature in the bottle filled with carbon dioxide to be warmer than the one filled with regular air and to cool down slower. Procedure. 1. Using limestone and acid, produce carbon dioxide and collect it in a bottle. Secure the lid on tightly and insert a temperature probe through the lid. 2. In another bottle, insert another temperature probe, ensuring that there is only ‘normal’ air in it. 3. Record the temperature using a log it system on the computer. 4. Light a lamp underneath the two bottles and record the temperature for ten minutes. 5. Turn the lamp off and continue recording for a further 10 minutes. Analysis. This graph shows that both carbon dioxide and air heat up the same amount when exposed to a small amount of heat. When the lamp is turned off, there is a sharp drop in heat in both bottles, although the
temperature/an increase in extreme weather conditions, such as hurricanes and tornadoes Is the carbon cycle involved? Recent scientific evidence indicates that humans have upset the carbon cycle, leaving more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas, burning biomass such as ethanol and wood, creating cement and releasing other chemicals into the atmosphere is upsetting the natural flow of carbon. Greenhouse gases in our atmosphere act
The Coral Reef is referred to as the “Rainforest of the Sea”, it has a greater diversity of animal and plant life than rainforests. The Coral Reef circulates nutrients through the food web and provides food at all of the levels of the food chain and also plays a major role in keeping global temperatures normal and is the primary producer of oxygen. People have relied on the ocean for many years for things like trading and about eighty percent who still live about 100 kilometers from the ocean today
the warming of the climate is directly connected to the overall heat characters of seasons and the periodical difference between them. Such circumstance of course is and going to have its consequences on the globe and the environment on a crucial level. This brief essay primarily aims to explore and discuss the warming procedure that the Arctic is going through, regarding its implication on the global balance of the climate. The Polar Regions are well-known for their role in controlling the Earth’s
Archaeans thrived, however, due to their ability to live in extreme conditions. As time went on, oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere due to the process of photosynthesis from photosynthesizing organisms. The end of the Precambrian Era transitioned into the beginning of Paleozoic Era. The Paleozoic Era had drastic effects on the overall climate of the planet. For some of the time period, the Earth was warmer than the Precambrian Era. On the contrary, two glacial periods happened in
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. For the past 650,000 years, the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide had been relatively steady, never reaching above 300 parts per million. In the past 50 or so years, the rate has skyrocketed from 315 to 400 parts per million. The rate in which carbon dioxide is increasing will prove to be catastrophic if it continues on its current path as it has already affected many ecosystems, and in particular, the ocean. The increase in carbon dioxide has two major effects on the
in the climate are taking place, and our climate system is getting warmer as time goes by. Changes in the climate from the last 60 years have never been experienced by the population. These changes include changes such as the atmosphere and the ocean becoming warmer, decreasing amounts of snow and ice, increase in the sea level and increase in the levels of greenhouse gases. • Atmosphere: The last thirty years have been warmer at the Earth’s surface than the previous years since 1850. Case in
The Effects of Global Warming On Coral Reefs Graphs Missing Introduction: The effects of global warming touch every human, animal, plant, ocean, landmass, and atmosphere level on this planet. The numerous effects of global warming are mixes of "good" and "bad" results, depending on how your definition of "good" results and "bad" results are. A "good" effect, a person could say, would be for regions with normally cold temperatures to receive warmer temperatures for their normal. Yet, there are
Essay 1: Climate change #Draft1 By definition, climate change refers to all variations of the statistical average in weather conditions over an extended period ranging from decades or longer. Over the 4 billion years of existence, the Earth’s climate has changed many times caused by natural factors; However during the last century, human activity has been the principal cause of climate change. In other words, according to scientists’ researches climate change is a natural phenomenon that has
areas. No other factors contribute more to this catastrophe than the climate change, also known as global warming. The elevation in the Earth’s average temperature as a result of burning fossil fuels and other natural or human activities produces carbon dioxide, which acts like a heat trapping gas and affects the earth in various ways. Among the most affected areas of climate change, agricultural sector is facing some serious threats through factors like increasing temperature, extreme precipitation
Global Climate Change Essay Climate and Weather are both conditions of our atmosphere. Weather is a condition over short period of time, the degrees, if it’s raining, snowing, windy, etc. and climate is over long period of time, if you live in a more tropical place it would be more wet, humid, and hot. Climate is basically what the weather usually is the normal conditions in a place, a longer term of the average weather. Depending on where you live will determine what the climate is there and what
(primarily Carbon Dioxide) in the atmosphere. These extra gases act as a blanket, trapping in radiation received from the sun and warming the Earth's surface. This effect can be brought on from a number of different sources. The burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, volcanic eruptions, and the decomposition of organic materials are only a few of the ways that extra greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere causing what is known to the general public as the "Greenhouse Effect". One
years include increased ocean temperature, the melting of widespread melting of snow and ice as well as rising sea levels. With
recently predicted a 1 to 3.5 degree Celsius increase in average atmospheric temperature above 1990 levels by the year 2100. Although this temperature increase may seem small, even an increase or decrease of a few degrees in atmospheric temperature is capable of causing drastic alterations in the agricultural process, among many other everyday issues. Though many studies have been done on the probable effects of an increase in global mean temperature, much is still unknown or only guessed at, due to a
the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), per-fluorocarbons (PFCs) and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere because it is directly affecting global warming. The combustion of fossil fuels and greenhouse emissions mainly contribute to the increase of these gases. The longer we go without solving this global problem the more conflicts we will have in the future. Although global warming does make the earth warmer there is more to worry about
the pH level in the water, the salinity of the water or salt content in the water, the temperature of the water and its turbidity or the ability to see through the waters surface, there are also other contaminants that may affect water quality. Dissolved oxygen (D.O) is an important variable in the water quality of fresh water ponds as it is vital for aquatic life such as fish to survive in the environment. D.O is the quantity of oxygen that has been dissolved into the water. Oxygen levels in ponds