The Greenhouse Effect

What makes Mercury uninhabitable?

• It's too cold during the day

• It's too hot at night

• It has almost no atmosphere

• Its gravity is too strong

What is the "runaway greenhouse effect?"

• When plants overgrow their greenhouse

• When a planet eventually cools itself down

• When a planet cannot properly cycle heat and carbon

• What we are experiencing on Earth right now

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Which is not an example of three spheres interacting?

• Water evaporates and the precipitates onto a hill, causing runoff

• Water percolated through the soil to an aquifer

• A worm moved through the ground and drinks from a puddle

• A bird flies and catches a worm in a puddle

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Choose all that apply: What are Earth's four main spheres?

• Stellosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere/ Geosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

What caused the greenhouse effect?

• Human burning fossil fuels and releasing CO2, into the atmosphere

• No one truly knows because humans weren’t alive when it started

• The greenhouse effect is part of the natural carbon cycle

• Chemicals created a hole in the ozone layer, allowing UV radiation in

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True or False: Earth experiences warm, interglacial periods roughly every 100,000 years.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

• Methane (CH4)

• Water Vapor (H2O)

• Nitrogen (N2)

What is an accurate metaphor for the Earth's atmosphere?

• An ice cube

• An oven

• A blanket

• A sink

What relationship do carbon dioxide and temperature have over time?

• As temperature increases, carbon dioxide concentration increases.

• As carbon dioxide concentration increases, temperature increases.

• As temperature decreases, carbon dioxide concentrations decreases.

• As carbon dioxide concentration increases, temperature decreases.

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How does the presence of clouds impact the surface temperature of Earth?

• Clouds increase the surface temperature.

• Clouds decrease the surface temperature.

• Clouds do not impact the surface temperature.