QUESTION AND ANSWER

1. What are the functions of the atmosphere?

The functions of the atmosphere are to protect human from the excessive amount of
sunlight, to prevent meteor or other dangerous celestial bodies to come into the earth,
to reduce the difference temperature in the night and afternoon.
2. What are the gas contained in the atmosphere generally?
The gas contained in the atmosphere are nitrogen (78,1%), oxygen (21%), argon
(0,9%), carbon dioxide (0,03%) and the remainder are another gas in slightly amount
like carbon monoxide, water vapor neon, ozone, methane, CFC, helium and etc.
3. What is the difference between carbon dioxide gas and carbon monoxide gas?
The different between carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide is carbon dioxide consists
of two atoms of oxygen thats bounded covalently to one atom of carbon while carbon
monoxide only consist one atom of oxygen thats bounded covalently to one atom of
carbon.
4. What is the emissions?
Emission is substance, energy or other component which is produced from an activity
and released to the air whether its potentially as pollutant or not.
5. How much the amount of carbon dioxide in the pure air and contaminated air?
Pure air contains carbon dioxide in range 310-330 ppm and contaminated air contains
carbon dioxide in range 350-700 ppm
6. How much the amount of carbon monoxide in the pure air and contaminated air?
Ccarbon monoxide in pure air is concentration < 1 ppm and in contaminated air is 5-
200 ppm.
7. What are the factors that cause carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gas emissions?
Natural and human factor.
8. What are the human factors that cause carbon monoxide emissions?
from the burning of fossil fuels such ass coal, oil and natural gas and transportation
sector.
9. How much carbon monoxide gas emissions are produced by burning fossil fuels?
Burning fossil fuels produces 87 % of carbon monoxide gas emissions
10. Why is the transportation sector the second largest source of carbon monoxide gas
emissions?
 Because transportation emissions has grown rapidly, rising 45% in less than 2 decades.
Its caused by trading activity which needs transportation that consumes fossil fuel
((gasoline, solar, kerosene and etc.) to transport commodity around the world
produces 22% carbon dioxide gas emission in 2010.
11. What are the human factors that cause carbon dioxide emissions?
the human factors that cause carbon dioxide emissions comes from vehicle especially
from gasoline fuel users and immovable sources such as coal and oil burning from
industry and domestic waste.
12. What are the effect if someone exposed to carbon dioxide gas for too long?\
The effect if someone exposed to carbon dioxide gas for too long carbon monoxide
gas emission may cause queasy, pale, poisoning and breathless even death
13. How can global warming occur with the presence of carbon dioxide gas?
Global warming can happen because carbon dioxide (in high amount) together with
other gases in air such as methane can absorb heat energy from the sun. Carbon
dioxide can be passed by visible light but it hold infrared ray radiation up thats
reflected from the earth so that the heat will be wrapped in the atmosphere
14. What are the effect if carbon monoxide gas increasingly in the atmosphere?
The effect if carbon monoxide gas increasingly in the atmosphere are may cause
queasy, pale, poisoning and breathless even death, may cause disturbance for
ecosystem and environment, affects the ability of fixation of nitrogen by free bacteria
especially in plant roots, and can make the material color blackish.
15. What are the effect if carbon dioxide gas increasingly in the atmosphere?
The effect if carbon dioxide gas increasingly in the atmosphere are can disturb human
health at concentration more than 5000 ppm if exposed for 2-8 hours. Other effect of
carbon dioxide gas emission is emergence of greenhouse effect that causes global
warming, the atmospheric temperature globally increase a few degrees, melt the ice in
polar part of earth, can raise the sea level and cause some island in the edge of sea
sink.
16. How are the effort to reduce carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide gas emissions?
The efforts to reduce carbon dioxide and carbon moxide gas emissions are by doing
reforestation; re-plant bare forest, reduce the use of gasoline fuel by using biofuel
which can make combustion process occurs more complete and doesnt release
carbon monoxide, filter and treat waste gas from the industry, and forth, reduce the
use of private transportation by using public transportation, walking if the distance is
not too far, using bicycle and so on.