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Eventually the IR photons escape into space, but some make several round trips between the ground and the atmosphere before they depart. Along the way, a lot of energy is transferred to the ground and the atmosphere. That energy becomes heat which warms Earth's surface and its atmosphere.
A. parasitism. The plasmodium is helped while the human host, harmed.
b. mutualism. The bacteria is supplied with a living environment while the host human is supplied with vitamin K