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warming? a. Global warming is the increase in the temperature of the entire earth. i. As the temperature increases the atmosphere is being damaged by the increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by the greenhouse effect. ii. The greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun’s warmth in the planet’s lower atmosphere due to the greater clarity, or transparency, of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet’s surface. iii. Many…

Helium is the second element in the periodic table. Its period number is 1 and it is apart of group number: 18. The group that Helium falls under is the Noble Gases. The element has an atomic number of 2, an atomic mass of 4 and is classified as a non-metal. It is the second most abundant element in the universe. Helium was discovered on the sun before it was found on the earth. In 1895, Pierre-Jules-César Janssen, a French astronomer and Norman Lockyer, an English astronomer both who discovered…

The goal of this lab was to compare the differences of temperature effect on a plant's growth rate. In this experiment, the materials used were water bottles, seeds, and cotton. One half-cut bottle with the seed was placed in room temperature, while the other in cold temperature. The plants were equally watered every other day after for 2 weeks (at the same time). Throughout this experiment, the results led to the conclusion that a plant placed in room temperature had a higher germination rate…

The Rio Grande Rift is a major component of the Sourthern Rocky mountain region. that extends from the center of Colorado, U.S.A., all the way down into Chihuahua, Mexico (Chapin, 1994) (figure 1). The area has long been used by humans as a north south trade route and also goes by the name “El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro” (“The Royal Road of the Interior Land”). The understanding of this rift zone is also an area of importance because it contains valuable resources such as hydrocarbons,…

In the article, Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, which could be found in the Rolling Stones Magazine, the author Bill Mckibben thoroughly outlines the most conventional political thinking about the issue Global Warming and Climate change that civilization and society has failed to resolve . However in order for this issue to be properly resolved, the ways of changing the methods of living and well being of society are going to be strongly impacted. First and foremost , Mckibeen uses three…

being a prominent figure among ethnic minorities, Martin Luther King Jr., as evidenced by his support of sanitation workers in Memphis, supported any cause which he saw as worthy. What he saw worth in; however, was not just the poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, or the oppressed, but those who he saw as being slighted of true justice and true equality. Perhaps this mentality is what drove him to comment on environmental protection—a cause which not only affects minorities or the poor,…

species within the park to die off (11476). One of the main pollutants that is affecting the climate is increase in carbon dioxide (Harris 340). Carbon dioxide is one most commonly associated with the greenhouse effect and distributes throughout the atmosphere causing the main changes in climate (Plass). There has been an increase in transformed or new species which is causing other species to also die out, and an increase in competitive interactions within the organisms, plant life included,…

As you’re reading this, 20-25 volcanoes are erupting, spreading it’s volcanic ash everywhere. Is this good for our environment? How do volcanoes affect people and our environment? Though, volcanic eruptions do spread volcanic ash which is good for plants. Those deposits are filled with minerals, but unfortunately do not become immediately available to the plants. Where the volcano is located, it can sometimes take up to about a thousand years for the ash and rocks forms a rich, good soil. But,…

Analysis of NASA Article The first article I chose to analyze is titled “NASA STUDYING 2015 El Nino As Never Before,” by Kasha Patel. The article explains what the weather pattern known as El Nino is, the effects it has on the climate, why NASA wants to study it, and how NASA plans on studying it. Now NASA has advanced satellites that can monitor more aspects of the weather pattern such as sea level and sea surface temperature. The reason NASA is so interested in the weather pattern this year…

This is the thing that causes the nursery effect. At that point, the fossil fuel gasses can create in the earth. At the point when that happens the atmosphere can thicken with a greater amount of the nursery gasses. This is the thing that makes a more prominent measure of the warm air that gets got. At the purpose of when fossil fills, similar to oil, coal, and typical grasses are high in carbon, are…