Greenhouse Effect

The Earth's atmosphere acts like a greenhouse, allowing sunlight to pass through and trapping heat from the sunlight.

• true
• false

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

• True
• False

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped heat from the sun's 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

This is an image demonstrating...

• Tornado Formation
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Hurricane Formation
• Pollution of Earth's atmosphere

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Which of the following does NOT happen to solar energy when it reaches Earth?

• Some solar energy reflects off the atmosphere, back to space

• Some solar energy passes through Earth and comes out the other side

• Some solar energy is absorbed by land and water

• Some solar energy is radiated from the Earth's surface and trapped by the atmosphere

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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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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

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The greenhouse effect is a natural process

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

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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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Which of the gases is NOT a greenhouse gas?

• water vapor

• carbon monoxide

• carbon dioxide

• methane

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Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be...

• too warm for life

• too cold for life