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How do carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases cause Earth's atmosphere to warm?

• absorb incoming solar radiation
• reflect incoming solar radiation
• absorb outgoing infrared radiation
• emit outgoing infrared radiation.

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Which photograph shows the land being less able to reflect incoming solar radiation (having a lower albedo)?

• top image (1909)
• bottom image (2005)

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• warming of the earth due to gases in our atmosphere.
• cooling of the earth due to gases in our atmosphere

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As the orbit of the earth around the sun changes, what happens?

• The climate changes.

• Temperature rises.

• The orbit is different.

• Nothing happens.

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What happens to the temperature if more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere?

• Temperature goes up
• Temperature goes down

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What is the Greenhouse Affect?

• As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures increase

• Condition that is caused by carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere

• causes sea levels to rise because it adds water to the ocean.

• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

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What do scientists think the effect will be of having more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere?

• More warming of the atmosphere

• More air in the atmosphere

• More cooling of the atmosphere

• Less air in the atmosphere

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The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area:

• Tropical Zone

• Climate

• El Niño

• La Niña

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A gradual increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere:

• Global Warming

• Greenhouse Gas

• El Niño

• Climate

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As you travel from the North Pole toward the equator, you would expect to see

• tropical rain forests, then deserts, then taiga.

• temperate deciduous forests, then taiga, then tropical rain forests.

• tundra, then grasslands, then tropical rain forests.

• taiga, then desert, then tundra.

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