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03 Jan 2024, 07:45
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Cause: A decrease in quantities of carbon dioxide getting converted into oxygen
Effect: An increase in global temperature
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Data Insights (DI) Butler 2023-24 [Question #182, Date: Jan-03-2024] [Click here for Details]
Environmentalist: The rise in the global temperature has many causes. One contributing factor is the increase of carbon dioxide which directly or indirectly causes the level of greenhouse gases — the primary contributor to global warming — to rise in the atmosphere. Due to huge urbanization and modernization, there has been a massive decrease in forest land. This has, in turn, resulted in lower quantities of carbon dioxide getting converted into oxygen. It is also possible that the increase in ocean-atmosphere exchange has had an impact on the level of carbon dioxide: during such exchange, carbon dioxide is released from the ocean into the air at the sea surface.
Indicate in the table which immediate cause-and-effect sequence would most likely, according to the environmentalist, result in rise in the global temperature. Make only two selections, one in each column.
| Cause | Effect | |
| An increase in ocean-atmosphere exchange | ||
| A decrease in forest land | ||
| An increase in global temperature | ||
| An increase in greenhouse gases | ||
| A decrease in quantities of carbon dioxide getting converted into oxygen |
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Cause: A decrease in quantities of carbon dioxide getting converted into oxygen
Effect: An increase in global temperature
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Sajjad1994, please post the solution. There is no reason for the answer to be what has been marked.
If I substitute the given solution in
Indicate in the table which immediate cause-and-effect sequence would most likely, according to the environmentalist, result in rise in the global temperature.
The sequence of decrease in quantities of carbon dioxide converting into oxygen and, thereby, resulting in increase in global temperature would most likely, according to the environmentalist, result in rise in the global temperature.
The above just doesn’t make sense.
The environmentalists are looking for cause and effect sequence that would result in global temperature.
It could easily be decrease in forest land resulting in decrease in CO2 conversion to O2. Thereby, resulting in increase in global temperature.
If their solution is not justified, we may just archive it.
If I substitute the given solution in
Indicate in the table which immediate cause-and-effect sequence would most likely, according to the environmentalist, result in rise in the global temperature.
The sequence of decrease in quantities of carbon dioxide converting into oxygen and, thereby, resulting in increase in global temperature would most likely, according to the environmentalist, result in rise in the global temperature.
The above just doesn’t make sense.
The environmentalists are looking for cause and effect sequence that would result in global temperature.
It could easily be decrease in forest land resulting in decrease in CO2 conversion to O2. Thereby, resulting in increase in global temperature.
If their solution is not justified, we may just archive it.
