Climate Change

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What gas from the list below is a cause for global warming? Urethane, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide

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Carbon Dioxide

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Which is one cause for Global Warming we discussed today? Burning Fossil Fuels, Pollution from factories, Both are causes for Global Warming

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Both are causes for Global Warming

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Do humans have the ability to cause temperature change?

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True

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What is the source of energy for the thermal currents that create global winds due to temperature differences between the North and South poles and the equator?

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Sun

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What are all of the climate zones that result from the unequal heating of Earth?

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tropical, temperate, and polar

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The diagram represents solar energy that is absorbed by Earth's land and water surfaces and is changed into heat that radiates back into the atmosphere.What is this process called?

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greenhouse effect

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Which process accurately describes the formation of the greenhouse effect?

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Heat radiating from the land and oceans is trapped in the troposphere.

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Solar energy is best absorbed by what material?

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water

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What is true about the oceans' release of heat?

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The oceans release heat more slowly than the land.

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The gas that is most abundant in the atmosphere is

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nitrogen