Climate Change Quick Check

What is the greenhouse effect?

• The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere causes extreme fluctuations in the planet's surface temperature.
• The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere has no impact on the planet's surface temperature.
• The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere cools the planet's surface to a temperature below what it would be without its atmosphere.
• The greenhouse effect is the process by which absorption and reflection of atmospheric gases warm the planet's surface above what it would be without the gases trapping heat.

Sort the following:

Groups:

(a) Greenhouse Gases

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(b) Atmospheric Gases

• Methane

• Don't trap heat

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

• Trap heat

• Make up most of our atmosphere

• Nitrogen

• Nitrous Oxide

• Make up a small part of our atmosphere

Which greenhouse gas is most abundant in the atmosphere that we are worried about most?

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Nitrous Oxide

• Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

What process creates carbon dioxide and releases it into our atmosphere?

• Oxidation of rock and soil

• Fermentation of bacteria

• Combustion of fossil fuels

• Photosynthesis in plants

The albedo effect is the amount of light that is ​ (a)   from a surface. A white surface has a ​ (b)   ​ albedo effect. ​ Things that have low albedo effect are surfaces like ​ (c)   ​

• reflected
• absorbed
• high
• low
• mountains or ocean
• glaciers or clouds

Global warming will cause glaciers to melt, what are the effects of melted glaciers?

• Rising sea levels, changes in water supply

• Decrease in ocean acidity
• Changes in water supply

• Expansion of wildlife habitat

Why contributes to sea level rise?

• Thermal expansion of water molecules

• Decrease in global temperature
• Melting of glaciers

• Increase in ocean salinity

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

Global warming could lead to the ocean undergoing thermal expansion. What is thermal expansion?

• Change in volume in response to a change in temperature

• Change in color due to temperature
• Change in density due to pressure
• Change in state from solid to liquid

Match the following

• Decreased density (temp)

• High Temperature

• Increased density (temp)

• Low Temperature

• Decreased density (salt)

• Low salinity

• Increased density (salt)

• High salinity

What is it important for oceans to have water currents/circulation?

• To decrease pollution

• To make the ocean water stagnant
• To decrease ocean temperature

• To distribute nutrients, and oxygen

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6