Chemistry of the atmosphere

• Ways carbon was removed from the atmosphere:

  
  

  Aquatic organisms - bones and shells

  Photosynthesis

  Dissolved in the ocean - carbon precipates
• Main gas in the air now

  Nitrogen
• Percentage of nitrogen in the air

  78
• Greenhouse effect

  
  

  Particles in atmosphere don't absorb incoming short - wave radiation from the sun. This radiation is reflected off Earth, losing energy, becoming long - wave radiation

  The long - wave radiation is absorbed and dissipated everywhere