Greenhouse Gases/Keeling Curve
What is a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing radiation from the sun?
Greenhouse Gases
What greenhouse gas do we focus the most on?
Carbon Dioxide
What do we call the part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air/atmosphere?
Biosphere
Energy from a source that is not depleted when used.
Renewable Energy
Currently the population of the world is...
Increasing
Name at least two different greenhouse gases.
Carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, methane
What is the process in which carbon travels from the atmosphere into organisms and the ground, and then back into the atmosphere?
The Carbon Cycle
What is a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms?
Fossil Fuels
Radiant energy emitted by the sun is called...
Solar Radiation
What is responsible for sea levels rising?
Melting of sea ice
What shows the variation in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Keeling Curve
What is the total carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emissions produced by an individual, group, or location due to consumption of fossil fuels?
Carbon Footprint
Sources that will run out of will not be replenished in our lifetime.
Nonrenewable Energy
Name at least two examples of renewable energy
Wind, solar, hydroelectric
Why is the greenhouse effect a good thing?
It allows for Earth to be a liveable temperature, otherwise it would be too cold for life to exist.
What is that natural pattern on the Keeling Curve?
The up and down zig zag due to seasons.
What do we call the ocean in the carbon cycle?
Carbon Sink
What does the stem word anthropo mean?
Human
Name at least two examples of nonrenewable energy
Coal, Oil (petroleum), natural gas
Think back to the balloon demonstration, why did the balloon with water not pop?
Water can absorb a large amount of heat, so it takes heat away from the balloon
What is the non-natural pattern on the Keeling Curve?
Caused by humans, it is the general rise in carbon dioxide levels
List three places carbon travels through the carbon cycle
Atmosphere, ground, and organisms
This describes that a resource is able to be maintained at a certain rate or level or method of using resources so that they resources are not permanently damaged.
Sustainable
How much of the sun's energy is reflected back into the atmosphere?
30%
The amount of carbon on the planet is finite. What does finite mean?
What we have is what we have, meaning we can't create or destroy it