Greenhouse Effect and Ecosystem
Greenhouse Effect And Ecosystem
Environment plays an important role in human life. Nowadays, people are trying to take care of this environment, to ensure the prosperity and happiness of their life . Environment or ecosystem is the interaction and interface between living things (biotic) and non-living (a biotic) in nature. Biotic component includes all kinds of living creatures such as humans, animals, plants and micro organisms. Whereas a biotic components include non-living components such as soil, water, wind, air, sunlight and so on. Living in the globalization world, the rapid increase of human population, led to increased variety of environmental problems. Activities that have been carried out such as industrial and logging was threatening environment badly. Human activities now rely on scientific and technological progress and economic development which has become concerned as the major cause of pollution. The continuous contamination of the environment could give bad consequences to the dynamic of the ecosystem. The greenhouse effect is one of the phenomenon that turns our earth 's temperature rose higher and hotter. This means that the ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun to the earth, partly reflected into space while the rest is reflected into the earth to make it hotter. The heat which reach the earth is reflected back by the earth 's surface into space as infrared rays. Thermal energy is not necessarily impenetrable as most heat out of the atmosphere will be absorbed by gases which trapped in the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, chlorofluorocarbons and methane. This trapped heat will raise the temperature of the earth 's surface and make sure that the earth is always hot. Increase amount of contaminated gases such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide also contributes in the rise of the earth surface temperature. The increase in carbon dioxide caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas.
Environment plays an important role in human life. Nowadays, people are trying to take care of this environment, to ensure the prosperity and happiness of their life . Environment or ecosystem is the interaction and interface between living things (biotic) and non-living (a biotic) in nature. Biotic component includes all kinds of living creatures such as humans, animals, plants and micro organisms. Whereas a biotic components include non-living components such as soil, water, wind, air, sunlight and so on. Living in the globalization world, the rapid increase of human population, led to increased variety of environmental problems. Activities that have been carried out such as industrial and logging was threatening environment badly. Human activities now rely on scientific and technological progress and economic development which has become concerned as the major cause of pollution. The continuous contamination of the environment could give bad consequences to the dynamic of the ecosystem. The greenhouse effect is one of the phenomenon that turns our earth 's temperature rose higher and hotter. This means that the ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun to the earth, partly reflected into space while the rest is reflected into the earth to make it hotter. The heat which reach the earth is reflected back by the earth 's surface into space as infrared rays. Thermal energy is not necessarily impenetrable as most heat out of the atmosphere will be absorbed by gases which trapped in the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, chlorofluorocarbons and methane. This trapped heat will raise the temperature of the earth 's surface and make sure that the earth is always hot. Increase amount of contaminated gases such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide also contributes in the rise of the earth surface temperature. The increase in carbon dioxide caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas.
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