Greenhouse Gases

Water Vapor

100

This leads to water escaping as gas

Increase in tempature

200

Water vapor lasts for this long in the atmosphere

10 days

300

Water vapor contributes a ____ amount to global warming

small

400

Water vapor is responsible for half of this effect

Greenhouse effect

Carbon Dioxide

100

This event marks a increase in carbon dioxide

Industrial Revolution

200

The cycle where carbon flows through the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and ocean

Carbon cycle

300

Scientists predict that carbon dioxide will increase by this percent value yearly

3%

400

State ONE of three reasons for increasing carbon dioxide

Fossil fuels, animal respiration, or deforestation

Methane

100

This percent range of methane comes from human activity

50-70%

200

This type of methane comes from underground

Thermogenic methane

300

This type of methane comes from decomposition and microorganisms in wetlands

Biogenic methane

400

Methane is removed from our atmosphere by this

Hydroxyl radicals

Nitrous Oxide

100

Nitrous oxide is this many parts per million

.312

200

Nitrous oxide's global warming potential is this many times greater than carbon dioxide

300 times

300

Nitrous oxide lasts for this long in the atmosphere

114 years

400

Nitrous oxide is broken down by UV radiation and releases this three letter molecule that harms the ozone

NOx

Facts

100

N2O is the formula for this greenhouse gas

Nitrous oxide

200

Most abundant gas that doesn't contribute to global warming

Water vapor

300

CH4 is the formula for this greenhouse gas

Methane

400

Most common greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming

Carbon dioxide