Effect of Greenhouse Gases

Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide

• Methane

• Water vapor

• All answers are correct

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The Earth acts like a greenhouse that catches and traps heat from the sun.

• true
• false

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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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Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be

• warm 
• cold
• dead

True or False: All of the radiation from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth

• True
• False

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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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

A super powerful greenhouse gas that traps up to 4 times more heat in Earth's atmosphere is:

• oxygen

• methane

• water vapor

• gasoline

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

This is an image demonstrating...

• Tornado Formation
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Hurricane Formation

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The gas that is most abundant in the atmosphere is

• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon dioxide
• argon

The gas that is the second most abundant in the atmosphere is

• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon dioxide
• argon