Feeling the Pressure
This is the effect that polar ice has on Earth's climate.
What is keeping the Earth from getting too hot?
This gas is the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This fossil fuel contributes to global climate change when burned.
What is oil?
Excessive amounts of carbon dioxides change this.
What is climate?
Most carbon on Earth is stored in these.
What are rocks?
This is what happens to air molecules as altitudes increase in the troposphere.
What is the molecules spreading further apart?
This is the most important role of the ozone layer.
What is absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation?
Through living and dying, organisms can produce this.
What is carbon?
This would help reduce global warming when referring to how we get around.
What is using fuel-efficient cars?
Fertilizer releases this.
What is nitrous oxide?
This is what happens to air pressure and the amount of oxygen as the altitude increases.
What is decrease?
This is the layer of Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
When humans fossil fuels, vast amounts of carbon dioxide are released here.
What is our atmosphere?
This is how clearing forests using fire contributes to the greenhouse effect.
What is burning trees returning stored carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide?
Landfills release this.
What is methane?
Scientists believe this would occur as a result of sea ice melting.
A student creates a diagram to show how greenhouse gases are released in the lithosphere affect the atmosphere, representing this.
What is the ozone layer?
The Industrial Revolution contributed to global warming by using more of these 3 resources.
What are oil, coal, and other fossil fuels?
This is the main why raising cattle contributes to global warming.
What is cattle having microbes in their stomach that produce methane during digestion?
Over millions of years, dead organisms become this.
What is fossil fuels?
These are terms used to describe when water travels through the lithosphere, the hyrdosphere, and the atmosphere.
What are infiltration, evaporation, and precipitation?
This is the reason why replacing nitrogen-based fertilizers with alternative materials could help fight the greenhouse effect.
What is nitrogen-based fertilizers releasing nitrous oxide into the atmosphere?
Scientists believe that winters might be milder on the Eastern Seaboard in the future due to this.
What is a change in the amount of polar ice that will alter how ocean currents move?
This is the increase in Earth's average surface temperature due to human activity.
What is global warming?
This is the layer where the majority of meteors burn up and create shooting stars.
What is the Mesosphere?