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If you took away the atmosphere’s natural greenhouse effect, and everything else stayed the same, Earth’s temperature would be   

• 10-20°F warmer
• 30-40°F warmer
• 10-20°F cooler
• 50-60°F cooler

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Greenhouses gases

• Absorb and radiate heat
• Destroy the ozone layer
• Cause respiratory problems
• Create smog

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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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What is the main difference between the enhanced and natural greenhouse effect?

• natural-more heat escapes to space
  enhanced-less heat escapes to space
• natural-less heat escapes to space
  enhanced-more heat escapes to space

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This is the side of the mountain that is often drier and warmer.

• Leeward Side
• Wet Lapse Rate
• Windward Side
• Wild Side

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How does the warm waters of the Gulf Stream affect the climate in North Carolina? 

• It makes it colder and drier
• It makes it warmer and wetter
• It makes it colder and wetter
• It makes it warmer and drier

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Much of the radiation emitted by the earth is captured and trapped in the

• stratosphere

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• troposphere

• mesosphere

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The greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in the lower atmosphere.

• True

• False

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Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be

• warm 
• cold
• dead

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Which is a correct statement about weather and climate

• Weather is a long-term pattern

• Weather is the driving influence behind the Biomes

• Climate is influenced by the sun's energy and geologic features

• Climate refers to the daily temperature, cloud cover, precipitation etc.

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