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Air around us is a mixture of many gases and dust particles. 1.One-fifth of the air is oxygen.
It is the clear gas in which living things live and breathe. It Oxygen is necessary for combustion
and respiration.
has an indefinite shape and volume. It has no colour or smell 2. Photosynthesis in plants is possible
. Air is a mixture of about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, because of carbon dioxide in the air
0.9% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and very small 3. Nitrogen present in the air is
necessary for the growth of plants
COAL
1.Soil acts as a filter for underground water,
filtering out pollutants
2.Approximately 10% of the world’s carbon
dioxide emissions are stored in soil
3.oil consists of 45% minerals, 25% water, 25%
air & 5% organic matter
The oxygen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle of oxygen within its two main reservoirs: the atmosphere (air), the total content of biological matter
within the biosphere (the global sum of all ecosystems), and the Earth's crust. The main driving factor of the oxygen cycle is photosynthesis ,
which is responsible for the modern Earth's atmosphere and life on earth
The greenhouse effect is the process by which
radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the
planet's surface to a temperature above what it
would be without its atmosphere. If a planet's
atmosphere contains radiatively active gases Fact 1: The last two decades of the
(i.e., greenhouse gases) the atmosphere will 20th century have been hottest in
the last 400 years, according to
radiate energy in all directions. Part of this climate studies.
Fact 2: The Arctic is one of the
radiation is directed towards the surface, worst places to be effected
by global warming.
warming it.
The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of
Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of
the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation. It 1. Ozone was first
contains high concentrations of ozone(O3) in discovered and isolated by
the German-Swiss chemist
relation to other parts of the atmosphere, although Christian Friedrich
Schönbein in 1839.
still small in relation to other gases in the 2. Schönbein named it
ozone from the Greek verb
stratosphere. The ozone layer contains less than 10 ozein, meaning to smell.
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