How do terrestrial plants help stop global warming?

Question

How do terrestrial plants help stop global warming?

Answer 1

they convert CO2 to Carbohydrates, and when they die, some of that Carbon is buried, it is converted to coal, so they have slowly been reducing the amount of free CO2 in the atmosphere and water, but that was a slow process, which started with the first life on earth, and is now being reversed by us, and that is why we call coal "fossil fuel".

Answer 2

The plants use CO2 gas to make their food in a process called photosynthesis.The waste products formed is water vapour and oxygen.Green plants are the only one which take in CO2-the gas that causes global warming and leave out water vapour and oxygen that cools the atmosphere and lowering the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Answer 3

I realize that plants 'convert' CO2 to Oxygen when exposed to sunlight.  But..... what happens when there is no sunlight..... like during the night?  Is the process then reversed??

Answer 4

In lay man's terms plants take in carbon dioxide ,and thru the process of photosynthesis it releases oxygen. Did you ever hear someone say if you talk to your plants they will grow better because they believed the plant actually responded to the T.L.C.! It's actually because we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide which the plants thrive on.

Answer 5

THey use CO2 through photosynthesis for food which is the leading cause of global warming and replace it with O2 which we use to breath.