greenhouse gases

In general, what happens to the climate (of the Earth) if more greenhouse gases are released (through human activities and natural occurrences) into the atmosphere?

• Average temperature goes up

• Average temperature goes down

• Average temperature remains the same

• None of the above

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Things you can do to help decrease global warming include:

• Eat more ice cream.
• Keep your freezer door open.
• Keep your air conditioner on high.
• Turn off your lights when you’re not using them.

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Choose all of the leading contributors of carbon dioxide that are contributing to global warming.

• forest fires

• human breathing (respiration)

• car exhaust

• factory pollution

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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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Which layer in the atmosphere protects us form harmful UV radiation?

• Ozone
• Troposphere
• Ionosphere
• Exosphere

What results from livestock and other agricultural practices and by the decay of organic waste in municipal solid waste landfills?

• Carbon Dioxide

• Methane

• Water Vapor

• Fluorinated Gases

• Nitrous Oxide

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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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Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be

• warm 
• cold
• dead

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Cutting down large forests (deforestation) can result in:

• little to no changes

• more homes for animals

• less plants to absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas

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1.  Certain gases in the atmosphere – water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – help maintain the Earth’s temperatures and climate. These are called: __________ . 

• A.  ozone gases
• A.  solar gases
• A.  greenhouse gases 
• A.  stomach gases

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