Global Warming Flashcards
What is global warming
The rise in temperatures of the earths atmosphere
What is meant by Gwen house effect
When the gases in the atmosphere acts like a blanket around our planet which traps in heat, making the temperature rise
What are causes of global warming
Aeroplane Cars Cows Factories Coal, oil gases
What is global warming caused by
An increase in the greenhouse effect because there are more greens house gases in the atmosphere
What does greenhouse gases include
Carbon dioxide and other gases
What’s the first step to how green house gases work
Sun emits short wave length radiation
What’s the second step to how green house gases work
The earth loses heat by emitting long wave length radiation
What’s the third step to how green house gases work
Greenhouse gases absorb some of the long wave length radiation.
What’s the fourthstep to how green house gases work
They re-radiate (all around the earth) making the earth warmer, they then go to the atmosphere and the earth
