BIOL 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Photosynthesis, Light-Independent Reactions, Rubisco

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Global warming is the progressive increase of earth"s average temperature that has been occurring in the past century. The average temperature is warming and is due to humans. Global climate change is the local changes in average temp. , precipitation and sea level relative to historical conditions, humans have drastically impacted the rate of change. The greenhouse gas effect is the presence of co2 in the atmosphere (and other greenhouse gases like methane) warmth from the sun heats earth"s surface, and radiates heat outward. Most heat is radiated into space but some warms up the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and radiates into earth"s surface. To an extent, this process is normal and needed for earth, however, the danger is the amount of co2 in excess. (a) water, heat and temperature: bodies of water absorb energy to maintain temperatures. Heat is the total amount of energy associated with the movement of atoms and molecules in a substance.

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