Spheres
The sphere containing all living things
What is the biosphere?
The ocean storing carbon.
What is a carbon sink?
This building appears like a shed but is made of material that traps heat inside, such as polycarbonate.
What is a greenhouse?
This source uses energy from the sun to generate power.
What is solar power?
(True or False)
We get more snow now than we did before 2000.
What is False?
The sphere containing all water
What is the hydrosphere?
Fossil fuels in a factory act as this.
What is a carbon source?
(True or False)
The greenhouse effect happens without humans.
What is true?
This source uses water to generate power.
What is hydropower?
(True or False)
Melting ice caps make the sea level rise.
What is True?
The second element of this statement.
Water is absorbed by plants during the rainy wet season.
What is the biosphere?
The process where CO2 enters the ocean.
Diffusion.
(True or False)
Humanity has made little impact on the greenhouse effect.
What is False?
This type of radiation is given off by the Earth.
What is infrared?
Warmer oceans hold _____ carbon compared to colder oceans.
What is less?
The last element of this statement.
Plants died off millions of years ago, turning into fossil fuels, which are then extracted. These are then burned into the air.
What is the atmosphere?
The process where animals breathe out CO2
What is respiration?
Increased greenhouse gasses come from this process that burns fossil fuels.
What is combustion?
This type of radiation is given off by the sun.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
Energy and wavelength are blankly related.
What is inversely?
A gigantic boulder falls into a river, preventing salmon from swimming past.
The first part of this statement.
What is the geosphere?
This process takes place between the atmosphere and biosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
The three main greenhouse gasses.
What are Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Water Vapor?
Greenhouse gasses interact with this type of radiation.
What is infrared?
This type of electromagnetic wave has the highest energy.
What is a gamma ray?