Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change Review

Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide

• Methane

• Water vapor

• All answers are correct

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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 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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The greenhouse effect is caused by

• more heat arriving at the Earth from the sun

• the Earth releasing more heat at night

• gases in the air trapping heat released by the Earth

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Increased carbon dioxide may cause global warming by

• allowing more sunlight into the atmosphere.

• reflecting more sunlight from clouds.

• reducing the amount of oxygen in the air.   

• trapping more heat in the atmosphere.

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Select the greenhouse gas(es)

• CO2

• Methane

• Oxygen

• All of the above

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Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas?

• Carbon dioxide CO₂

• Methane CH₄

• Water vapor

• Nitrogen N₂

Gases in the Earth's troposphere retaining the infrared radiation and warming the Earth is referred to as:

• Climate Change

• Permafrost Melt

• Ozone Depletion

• Greenhouse Effect

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The highest gaseous pollutant is

• methane

• nitrous oxide

• carbon dioxide

• fluorinated gases

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The graph shows us that

• the earth temperature is always increasing

• the earth's temperature has steadily increased since 1900

• the earth's temperature has steadily rising since the 1960s

• the earth's temperature decreased during the 19th and 20th centuries

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