The greenhouse effect is a process by which a planet’s atmosphere traps some of its parent star’s energy. In our case, the Earth is the planet while the Sun is our parent star. The Earth traps some of the Suns heat and subsequently warms up. Greenhouse gases trap the Sun’s energy...
Nitrous oxide is a by-product of naturally occurring processes in soils and oceans. It is produced by bacterial nitrification and denitrification and is thus part of the natural nitrogen cycle. Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, has a much lower concentration in the air than CO2, for example, bu...
Some atmospheric gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases) trap some of the outgoing energy, retaining heat somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse; These gases are therefore known as greenhouse gases; The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature on Earth as certain gases...
The presence of some degree of greenhouse gases in the Earth's environment is natural, and this natural greenhouse effect is needed to keep the global ecosystem running. However, too much of these gases has a negative effect on the average temperature of the Earth. Water vapor is the most a...
Nitrous oxide is produced through the large-scale use of commercial and organic fertilisers, fossil-fuel combustion, nitric-acid production and biomass burning. Water vapour Water vapour is the most abundant greenhouse gas. It increases as the earth's atmosphere warms but unlike CO2, which can re...
The ‘greenhouse effect’ is an atmospheric heating phenomenon in which the Earth experiences rise in temperature because certain gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane) in the atmosphere allow incoming sunlight to pass through but trap heat radiated from the earth’s surface...
What is heart rate? Define it with physiological details. When the nerves to the heart are cut, the heart rate increases to about 100 contractions per minute. What does this increase indicate about regulation of the heart rate? Which of the following is an adrenergic effect on the heart? a...
Because the greenhouse effect is a natural process, it affects other bodies in the solar system, too. And, in some cases, that provides a warning about how things can go awry. A perfect example of this is Venus, which is roughly the same size as Earth and not that much closer to the...
The greenhouse effect is caused by ‘green house gases’, which are primarily made up of Argon, Carbon Dioxide, Neon, Helium, Methane, Hydrogen, Nitrous Oxide and Ozone. These gases are called this because during the day the earth absorbs heat from the sun, although much of this is radiate...
What is the Greenhouse Effect? You can think of Earth as being one giant greenhouse*. Instead of glass walls, however, our planet’s greenhouse is created by the Earth’s atmosphere. Within our atmosphere aregreenhouse gasses, things like water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ...