Greenhouse Effect

What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.
• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

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What gas from the list below is a cause for global warming?

• Urethane
• Oxygen
• Carbon Dioxide

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• Tornado Formation
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Hurricane Formation

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 Which of the following activities contributes the most to carbon emissions globally?

• Deforestation
• Agriculture
• Burning fossil fuels
• Respiration

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By what amount did carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere increase between 1960 and 2000?

• 40 -50 ppm
• 60 -70 ppm
• 110 -120 ppm
• 360 -370 ppm

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Green House gases

• absorb the sun's radiation and trap heat

• are good for our health

• absorb gravity and keep us attached to Earth

• expulse radiation to the sun and prevent us from getting to warm

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What activity is increasing green house gases?

• Ocean and air currents

• Volcanic activity

• Plants activity

• Human activity

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Humans have the ability to cause temperature change.

• True
• False

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Melting of glaciers and polar ice caps....

• will result in cooler temperatures in the Arctic
• will result in sea-levels rising
• Will have no effect on ecosystems
• None of the above

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What do greenhouse gases do?

• absorb Earth's outgoing infrared radiation
• reflect Earth's incoming infrared radiation
• magnify ultraviolet radiation in the atmosphere
• block the Sun's infrared radiation