vocabulary
It is something that shows the presence or existence of something else that you cannot see.
What is an indicator?
Finish the sentence: As warmer air rises, it transfers _____________ to the cooler air around it.
What is energy?
The text compares gases in the Earth's atmosphere to this part of the greenhouse.
What is the roof?
When we burn this, it creates carbon dioxide. Co2
What are fossil fuels?
It's how solar energy moves through the plastic or glass sides of a greenhouse. (It is also how solar energy moves through the atmosphere.)
What is transmit?
This is a type of heat energy that is given off from warmed plants and soil. This type of heat does not get out of the greenhouse easily.
What is radiation (energy)?
What is heat radiation (energy)?
These kinds of gases trap the thermal energy in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
What is greenhouse?
Scientists have know that carbon dioxide traps thermal energy since what year?
What is 1880?
It is process that describes how the air above the Earth's surface is heated.
What is conduction?
In a greenhouse, these allow the rising warmer, less dense air to leave the greenhouse. Unfortunately, our atmosphere does not have these.
What are vents?
These are at least two examples of fossil fuels that when burned, create carbon dioxide.
What is gas, oil, natural gas, diesel, coal?
According to the text, it is a reason why even a small rise in temperatures is important.
What is increase in extreme weather events?
What are heat waves, higher precipitation, flooding and extended drought?
It is the cycle for gases and liquids in which they heat, lose density, and rise, then cool, become dense, and fall.
What is convection?
Vents at the bottom of the greenhouse allow cooler air to enter. This keeps the air _____________ throughout the greenhouse.
What is circulating?
What is moving?
Greenhouse gases from oil, gas, and and other fossil fuels absorb the air's thermal energy or heat, trapping it in this place above the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
A rise in the Earth's temperature could lead to changes in the amount and kinds of _________ available to both humans and animals.
What is food?