Earth Science Final Review Quiz

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

• using bottled water
• burning fossil fuels
• texting on cellphones
• eating meat

T/F: Water vapor is a greenhouse gas

• True
• False

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

• evaporation
• condensation
• the greenhouse effect
• radiation

Which gases are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Nitrous oxide
• All of the above

Carbon can be found in...?

• Atmosphere

• Lithosphere

• Biosphere

• All of the above!

Over the past 200 years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has

• decreased slightly.

• increased until recently, and then decreased.

• increased rapidly

• stayed about the same.

Before the industrial revolution, a lot of carbon was stored in the... (think about where people got stuck in the carbon cycle activity)

• Biosphere

• Lithosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

After the industrial revolution, carbon from the lithosphere, often ended up in the...

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• lithosphere

• hydrosphere

Cutting down trees is problematic because....

• trees store carbon, so if they are dead, they cannot store it.

• trees take in CO2 from the atmosphere

• trees produce oxygen for us to breathe

• all of the above

How do carbon emissions lead to global warming?

• By trapping the sun's heat in the atmosphere.

• By causing very hot volcanic eruptions.

• Rocks become richer in carbon as time goes by.

• By increasing the amount of carbon in the earth's crust