P2.3 - More About Infrared Radiation (Finished?)

Question 1

Make sure you don’t start explaining global warming in physics terms in geography

Answer 1

Ok

Question 2

Do you know about global warming?

Answer 2

Good enough

Question 3

This did not help

Answer 3

Agreed

Question 4

When does an object’s temperature increase (infrared radiation)?

Answer 4

When it absorbs radiation faster than emitting it

Question 5

Explain how greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere heat up Earth?

Answer 5

Infrared radiation from the sun warms the ground. The heated ground then emits longer-wavelength i-radiation which is absorbed by molecules of greenhouse gases and re-emitted back down