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The Greenhouse Gases

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Created by using fertilizers on farms

a)

methane

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

Nitrous oxide

2.

Created by burying garbage in landfills

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

methane

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

nitrius oxide

3.

Traps up to23,000x more gas per molecule than Carbon dioxide

a)

fluorinated gase

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

methane

d)

nitrous oxide

4.

Createdby driving gasoline powered cars

a)

nitrous oxide

b)

fluorinated gase

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

methane

5.

Cows and sheep give off this gas in digestion

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

nitrous oxide

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

methane

6.

Created during the making of computer chips

a)

fluorinated gase

b)

nitrous oxide

c)

methane

d)

carbon dioxide

7.

This gas stays in the atmosphere for 12 years

a)

nitrous oxide

b)

methane

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

carbon dioxide

8.

This gas causes the greatest % of warmiing int the atmosphere

a)

nitrous oxide

b)

methane

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

fluorinated gase

9.

This gas is given off from a leaky air conditioner

a)

fluorinated gase

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

nitrous oxide

d)

methane

10.

This gas is compared to all other greenhouse gases for warming potential

a)

nitrous oxide

b)

methane

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

carbon dioxide

11.

This gas is given off when coais mined

a)

fluorinated gase

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

methane

d)

nitrous oxide

12.

This gas is responsiblefor only 0.8% of the warming in the atmosphere

a)

fluorinated gase

b)

nitrous oxide

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

methane

13.

This gas can stay in the atmosphere for 114 years

a)

fluorinated gase

b)

nitrous oxide

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

methane

14.

This gas is strongly given off by cow manure

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

methane

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

nitrous oxide

15.

This gas is given off by burning down trees

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

nitrous oxide

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

methane

16.

This gas is given off by cow burps and farts

a)

fluorinated gase

b)

nitrous oxide

c)

methane

d)

carbon dioxide

17.

This gas is given off when we make electicity and heat

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

fluorinated gase

c)

nitrous oxide

d)

methane

18.

Frozen groung in the arctic and antarctic

a)

frostysickle

b)

frosty green

c)

topsoil

d)

permafrost

19.

This gas is given off as permafrost melts

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

methane

20.

A type of wave that is obsorbed by greenhouse gases

a)

x-ray

b)

solar wave

c)

heat wave

d)

microwave

21.

This gas can stay in the atmosphere for 50-1000s of years

a)

methane

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

fluorinated gase

d)

nitrous oxide

22.

Name the gases for GREATEST % to LOWEST % of warming

a)

carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, fluorinated gase

b)

methane, carbon dioxide, fluorinated gase, nitrous oxide

c)

fluorinated gase, nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide

d)

carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, fluorinated gase

23.

According to this graph, what happened 400,000 years ago

a)

carbon dioxide levels were high, temperatures were low

b)

carbon dioxide levels were high, temperatures were high

c)

carbon dioxide levels were low, temperatures were low

d)

carbon dioxide levels were low, temperatures were high

24.

How are greenhouse gases similar to a real greenhouse

a)

they trap heat

b)

they reflest solar waves

c)

they allow solar waves to go through them

d)

they allow heat waves to travel through them