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What affects the biosphere?
The Biosphere Affects Climate. ... Because of its involvement in the Earth's carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle, the biosphere influences the amounts of some of the major greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. Listed below are some of the biosphere's major influences on greenhouse gases.
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There are many different ways that the biosphere (the plants, animals and other life on our planet) affect climate. Some produce greenhouses gases and promote warming of our planet through the greenhouse effect, while others reduce the amount of greenhouse gases promoting cooling of our planet.
By trapping heat, greenhouse gases contribute to our planet's warming. Because of its involvement in the Earth's carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle, the biosphere influences the amounts of some of the major greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. Listed below are some of the biosphere's major influences on greenhouse gases.
Plants: Carbon dioxide is taken out of the atmosphere by plants during the process of photosynthesis. This promotes cooler climates. Plants also respire carbon dioxide during the night, releasing some back into the atmosphere, but on average, they take much more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than they put in.
Farm animals: Methane gas is produced as farm animals such as cattle and sheep digest their food.
Wetlands and rice patties: microbes in natural wetlands and rice paddies produce methane gas.
Factories and power plants: to make power for most factories and power plants, fossil fuels, the remains of ancient plant and animal bodies, are burned releasing carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere.
Cars and trucks: Carbon dioxide gas is released when fossil fuels, the remains of ancient plant and animal bodies, are burned to power cars and trucks.
Fertilizers: Nitrous oxide gas is produced when nitrate and ammonium in human-produced fertilizers breakdown in the soil.
Wildfires: carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere as wildfires burn. However, if a forest of similar size grows again, about the same amount of carbon that was added to the atmosphere during the fire will be removed. So, fires affect greenhouse gases in the short term, but not on long timescales.
By trapping heat, greenhouse gases contribute to our planet's warming. Because of its involvement in the Earth's carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle, the biosphere influences the amounts of some of the major greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. Listed below are some of the biosphere's major influences on greenhouse gases.
Plants: Carbon dioxide is taken out of the atmosphere by plants during the process of photosynthesis. This promotes cooler climates. Plants also respire carbon dioxide during the night, releasing some back into the atmosphere, but on average, they take much more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than they put in.
Farm animals: Methane gas is produced as farm animals such as cattle and sheep digest their food.
Wetlands and rice patties: microbes in natural wetlands and rice paddies produce methane gas.
Factories and power plants: to make power for most factories and power plants, fossil fuels, the remains of ancient plant and animal bodies, are burned releasing carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere.
Cars and trucks: Carbon dioxide gas is released when fossil fuels, the remains of ancient plant and animal bodies, are burned to power cars and trucks.
Fertilizers: Nitrous oxide gas is produced when nitrate and ammonium in human-produced fertilizers breakdown in the soil.
Wildfires: carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere as wildfires burn. However, if a forest of similar size grows again, about the same amount of carbon that was added to the atmosphere during the fire will be removed. So, fires affect greenhouse gases in the short term, but not on long timescales.
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