Global Warming Analysis
Using your own words, using similes and metaphors and analogies and not copying from
the text, Environmental Science, pgs 339-345, blue text.
Describe, explain, draw or answer the following.
1. What exactly is the Greenhouse effect?
2. How is the greenhouse effect related to Global Warming?
3. Describe the process that occurs in the atmosphere to cause the greenhouse effect.
4.
Describe the types of electromagnetic spectrum waves that enter the atmosphere.
5.
Describe the types of electromagnetic spectrum waves that are absorbed by the
Earth and Re-radiated back into the atmosphere.
6. through 11.
List 5 of the factors that cause the greenhouse effect..
a. Be sure to include three different greenhouse gasses, how they change,
and what events occur in the atmosphere.
b. Be sure to include energy (sunlight) from the sun and how it affects the
different gasses that cause the greenhouse effect.
12. Why is the graph line on page 340 a zig-zag?
13. What is the relationship, if any, between the graph on page 340 and page 341?
14. Explain why life as we know it, could or could not survive without the
greenhouse effect.
15. Why did Keeling choose the location that he did for measuring Carbon Dioxide
(CO2) in the atmosphere?
16. Describe the relationship if any, between cutting and burning the Rainforests and
Global Warming.
Using your own words, (hint: use similes, (like or as)or analogies, (this is like).
Describe, explain, draw or answer How global warming might affect the following:
17. Weather patterns
18. Agriculture
19. How the effect on agriculture will affect the growing human population.
20. The coastlines around the world.
21. The 80 % of our world’s population that lives along the Earth’s coastlines.