ECOLOGY
HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE
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Industrial chemicals
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Agricultural chemicals
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Residential sewage
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Greenhouse gases
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Detailed explanation-1: -Major greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and various synthetic chemicals. Carbon dioxide is widely reported as the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas because it currently accounts for the greatest portion of the warming associated with human activities.
Detailed explanation-2: -Solution: (d) Nitrogen is not a greenhouse gas.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of Earth are carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.
Detailed explanation-4: -Water vapor is Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas. It’s responsible for about half of Earth’s greenhouse effect-the process that occurs when gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap the Sun’s heat.