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What will happen if the amount of oxygen is increased in air?
In the event of doubling the oxygen levels on Earth, the most significant changes would be the speeding up of processes like respiration and combustion. With the presence of more fuel, i.e. oxygen, forest fires would become more massive and devastating. Anything and everything would burn more easily.
What will happen if carbon dioxide is more than oxygen?
CO2 is heavier than oxygen, so we might expect every CO2 molecule to sink below a layer of oxygen molecules. Generalizing this idea to the other gases in the air, we might deduce that this would result in a perfectly stratified atmosphere with separate layers of each type of gas.
What happens when there will be an increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the air?
Carbon dioxide molecules provide the initial greenhouse heating needed to maintain water vapor concentrations. Likewise, when carbon dioxide concentrations rise, air temperatures go up, and more water vapor evaporates into the atmosphere—which then amplifies greenhouse heating.
How does oxygen affect the rate of photosynthesis?
The effect of oxygen on photosynthesis depends on plant species and on some internal and environmental conditions. Oxygen inhibits the photosynthesis of C3 plants at atmospheric CO2 concentration (Varburg effect). Inhibition of photosynthesis by oxygen is reduced by increase of the C02 concentration.
What is the normal oxygen level in the air?
Normal atmospheric air at sea level has a pressure of 760 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). Because air contains approximately 21 percent oxygen, oxygen’s contribution to the total pressure, in other words its partial pressure, is 21 percent of 760 mm Hg, or about 159 mm Hg.
What will happen if carbon dioxide increases and oxygen decreases in the atmosphere?
Increasing carbon dioxide and decreasing oxygen make it harder for deep-sea animals to ‘breathe’ About one third of the carbon dioxide that humans produce by burning fossil fuels is being absorbed by the world’s oceans, gradually causing seawater to become more acidic.