What are the two most common greenhouse gases?

Water Vapor (H 2 O) and Carbon Dioxide CO 2

Water Vapor (H 2 O) and Methane (CH 4 )

Carbon Dioxide CO 2 and Methane (CH 4 )

Water Vapor (H 2 O) and Nitrous oxide (N 2 O)

The remains of ancient animals and plants, the traces or impressions of living things from past geologic ages, or the traces of their activities.

Weathering and erosion that cause rocks to form, break down, and re-form.

Sediment layers that form due to pressure, heat, and time.

What is one thing that greenhouse gases do?

Trap heat in the Earth´s atmosphere.

Cause plants to die immediately.

What did scientists find that provided evidence that America and Africa were once connected?

Fossils of an ancient fern in Antarctica.

A trace fossil of ancient marine life.

What is some problems with using fossil fuels? Choose three answers.

Burning fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases.

Fossil fuels are cheaper than alternative sources of power.

Fossil fuels power our cars, factories, and lives.

Which statement is true?

The troposphere has the highest pressure because gravity keeps the air down.

The troposphere has the highest temperature because of the distance from the Sun

The exosphere has the highest temperature because of the distance from the Sun

The exosphere has the highest pressure because gravity keeps the air down.

Why are some layers warmer than others?

some layers contain gases that can absorb the sun's energy

they get hotter the higher up you go

some layers closer to the sun are hotter

there is no wind in the upper atmosphere

Which is true about the Mesosphere?

Burns up most asteroids before they reach Earth

Which of these problems can be caused by air pollution?

Reduced food sources for humans

Decrease in global temperatures

When the Ozone Layer loses Ozone what happens to organisms on the earth's surface?

They are exposed to Ultraviolet B Radiation

A chemical reaction between the water in the air, pollution and the sun.

What is air pollution?

Any harmful substance that builds up in the air

What is a secondary pollutant?

pollutants that react with other primary pollutants

pollutant that is put directly into air by human activities

What did Congress create in 1970?

Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Prevention Association

Environmental Group of Companies

Two objects at different temperatures are in contact. Which of the following happens to their thermal energy?

Thermal energy passes from the warmer object to the cooler object.

Their thermal energies remain the same.

Thermal energy passes from the cooler object to the warmer object

Thermal energy passes back and forth equally between the two objects.

Test - Atmosphere (3/5/2019)

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This occurs in nature in small amounts in the upper atmosphere (10-30 miles)?

Nitrous Oxide

Methan

Water Vapor

Ozone

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This is a gas produced from breathing, volcanic eruptions, and burning of fossil fuels?

Water Vapor

Methane

Ozone

Carbon Dioxide

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This gas has increased the most and traps heat?

Ozone

Water Vapor

Methane

Carbon Dioxide

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When we discuss greenhouse gases what is the main one we discuss?

Methane (CH₄)

Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)

Nitrous oxide (N₂O)

Flourinated gases

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5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The main human activity that releases greenhouse gases is...

using bottled water

burning fossil fuels

texting on cellphones

eating meat

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

T/F: Water vapor is a greenhouse gas

True

False

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of heat being radiated to space is called

evaporation

condensation

the greenhouse effect

radiation

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Test - Atmosphere (3/5/2019)

55 questions

This occurs in nature in small amounts in the upper atmosphere (10-30 miles)?

This is a gas produced from breathing, volcanic eruptions, and burning of fossil fuels?

This gas has increased the most and traps heat?

When we discuss greenhouse gases what is the main one we discuss?

The main human activity that releases greenhouse gases is...

T/F: Water vapor is a greenhouse gas

The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of heat being radiated to space is called

Without any greenhouse effect the Earth would be...

What are the two most common greenhouse gases?

T/F: Earth Naturally goes through periods of warm and cold

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