The greenhouse effect

What is a greenhouse?

• A house made of glass and the glass traps heat from sunlight.
• A house that stays warm inside.
• A house that people grow plants, fruits, and vegetables in.
• All of the above

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How does Sunlight effect the Earth's surface?

• It warms the Earth.
• It cools the Earth.
• It has no effect.

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How is Earth a greenhouse?

• Earth's atmosphere does the same thing as the greenhouse.
• Carbon Dioxide, a gas in Earth's atmosphere, does what the roof of a greenhouse does. 
• The Sun shines through the atmosphere, warming the Earth's surface.
• All of the above

What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped heat.

• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

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Water in the atmosphere also acts as a greenhouse gas.

• True
• False

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If the greenhouse effect is too strong, Earth gets...

• colder and colder
• warmer and warmer

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 Which of the following activities contributes the most to carbon emissions globally?

• Deforestation
• Agriculture
• Burning fossil fuels
• Respiration

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Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Water vapor
• All answers are correct

The gas that is most abundant in the atmosphere is

• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon dioxide
• argon

What happens to the temperature if more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere?

• Temperature goes up
• Temperature goes down

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