The Greenhouse Effect

What is a greenhouse?

• A house made of glass and the glass traps heat from sunlight.
• A house that stays warm inside.
• A house that people grow plants, fruits, and vegetables in.
• All of the above

How does Sunlight effect the Earth's surface?

• It warms the Earth.
• It cools the Earth.
• It has no effect.

How is Earth a greenhouse?

• Earth's atmosphere does the same thing as the greenhouse.
• Carbon Dioxide, a gas in Earth's atmosphere, does what the roof of a greenhouse does. 
• The Sun shines through the atmosphere, warming the Earth's surface.
• All of the above

This is an image demonstrating...

• Tornado Formation
• Hurricane Formation
• Greenhouse Effect

Which of the following is a long term effect of the greenhouse effect?

• Ice caps and glaciers melt. 
• Change in weather patterns and climate.
• Rising sea levels.
• All of the above

What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped heat.

• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

Water in the atmosphere also acts as a greenhouse gas.

• True
• False

If the greenhouse effect is too strong, Earth gets...

• colder and colder
• warmer and warmer

Humans have the ability to cause temperature change.

• True
• False

Has the Earth's atmosphere been keeping too much carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases?

• Yes
• No