The Greenhouse Effect

T/F: Water vapor is a greenhouse gas

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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

• True
• False

The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of heat being radiated to space is called

• evaporation
• condensation
• the greenhouse effect
• radiation

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Without any greenhouse effect the Earth would be...

• Fine
• Too Cold to Support Life
• Very Hot

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

Over the past 200 years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has

• decreased slightly.   
• increased until recently, and then decreased.
• increased steadily.   
• stayed about the same.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

The gas molecules that cause the Earth's greenhouse effect are all of the following except

• carbon dioxide

• water vapor

• methane

• nitrous oxide

• oxygen gas

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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

1.  Certain gases in the atmosphere – water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – help maintain the Earth’s temperatures and climate. These are called: __________ . 

• A.  ozone gases
• A.  solar gases
• A.  greenhouse gases 
• A.  stomach gases

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

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.MS-ESS3-5

The Earth acts like a greenhouse that catches and traps heat from the Earth.

• true
• false

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4