Topic 4 Lesson 1 Quiz

Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

• Carbon dioxide

• Methane

• Water vapor

• All answers are correct

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

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

• Temperature goes up
• Temperature goes down

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

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

• True
• False

The highest gaseous pollutant is

• methane

• nitrous oxide

• carbon dioxide

• fluorinated gases

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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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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

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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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

T/F: Some greenhouse gases are naturally present in the Earth's atmosphere

• True
• False

T/F: Water vapor is a greenhouse gas

• True
• False

Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be

• warmer 

• colder

• temperature would not change