Which is not a greenhouse gas?
Oxygen
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Water vapor
Greenhouse gases are gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor that absorb infrared radiation.
False
True
Coal, oil, and natural gas formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
Greenhouse
Fossil Fuels
Power station
The average temperature and amount of precipitation over time is an example of _____.
weather
climate
Which has increased at about the same rate as global temperatures over the past 100 years?
Volcanic eruptions
Tree rings
Sunlight reaching Earth
Carbon dioxide
When fossil fuels burn, they produce _____.
climate
temperature
carbon dioxide
atmosphere
Climate scientists agree human activity is causing global temperatures to rise.
FALSE
TRUE
Biofuel - Fuels made from plants or algae that are a form of renewable energy.
FALSE
TRUE
An unusually warm day in the winter is an example of _______.
climate
weather
One solution to decreasing global temperatures is to use _________.
less nuclear energy
less solar energy
more biofuels
more fossil fuels
Which is not a fossil fuel?
Oil
Natural gas
Coal
Solar
A slowly moving mass of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
Glacier
Greenhouse
Increased global temperature is responsible for all but _________.
sea level rise
catastrophic wildfires
stronger hurricanes
COVID-19
Greenhouse gases are helpful to life on Earth.
FALSE
TRUE