Greenhouse Effect

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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• Tornado Formation

• The Greenhouse Effect

• Hurricane Formation

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Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide

• Methane

• Water vapor

• All answers are correct

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

• true

• false

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The way in which heat is trapped close to Earth's surface by gases.

• Greenhouse Effect

• Climate Change

• Blanket Theory

• Heat Sink Theory

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What is the Greenhouse Effect?

• Earth is warmed when solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth.

• Earth is warmed when gases in the atmosphere trap the sun's heat.

• Earth is cooled when solar radiation is reflected off the clouds.

• Earth is cooled when gases in the atmosphere trap the sun's heat.

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According to this labeled diagram, which arrow represents the warming resulting from the greenhouse effect?

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Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide

• Methane

• Water vapor

• All answers are correct

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What does greenhouse effect do?

• makes more carbon

• traps heat

• burns fossil fuel

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The ​ (a)   is the process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb and radiate heat.

• ozone layer

• greenhouse effect

• atmosphere

• temperature