Deck 6: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect

Question 1

The highest recorded temperature on earth was 136°F in El Azizia, Libya.What is this temperature in Celsius?

A) 104
B) 277
C) 58
D) 76

Answer 1

58

Question 2

What substance naturally found in the atmosphere seems to be increasing in concentration over the years?

A) oxygen
B) nitrogen
C) carbon dioxide
D) carbon monoxide

Answer 2

carbon dioxide

Question 3

Which type of radiation is the most energetic?

A) microwaves
B) visible
C) ultraviolet
D) infrared

Answer 3

infrared

Question 4

Convert 370 ppm carbon dioxide to a percentage?

A) 0.00037%
B) 0.0037%
C) 0.037%
D) 0.37%

Question 5

Which of the following is not considered an air pollutant?

A) water vapor
B) ozone
C) nitric oxide
D) sulfur dioxide

Question 6

Which type of radiation hits the earth in the highest percentage?

A) visible
B) ultraviolet
C) infrared
D) gamma

Question 7

What is another name for infrared radiation?

A) gamma rays
B) heat
C) kilocalorie
D) greenhouse gas

Question 8

How are carbon dioxide concentrations determined from thousands of years ago?

A) analysis of decayed plant material
B) analysis of ice samples
C) analysis of the atmosphere
D) analysis of the Earth's core

Question 9

Which source removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

A) plants
B) oceans
C) phytoplankton
D) all of the above

Question 10

What does a plant covert carbon dioxide into during photosynthesis?

A) sugar
B) water
C) carbon monoxide
D) methane

Question 11

How much energy is in a gamma ray with a frequency of 2.5 * 10²⁰ s^-1 (E = h $\nu$ where h = 1.58 * 10^-34 cal.s)

A) 4.0 *10²⁰ cal
B) 4.0 * 10⁵⁴ cal
C) 4.0 * 10^-20 cal
D) 4.0 * 10^-14 cal

Question 12

Which is not a greenhouse gas?

A) CO₂
B) H₂O
C) CO
D) CH₄

Question 13

What is the greenhouse effect?

A) solar radiation is trapped and reemitted as heat
B) the increase in plant material
C) UV radiation is absorbed and reemitted as heat
D) all of these

Question 14

How is radiation absorbed?

A) by increasing the molecular vibrations of molecules
B) by converting atoms to ions
C) by breaking chemical bonds
D) all of the above

Question 15

What happens to most of the UV radiation in our atmosphere?

A) absorbed by plants
B) absorbed by greenhouse gases
C) absorbed by ozone
D) absorbed by nitrogen

Question 16

Carbon dioxide warms the earth by

A) absorbing ultraviolet light and emitting longer wavelength light
B) the greenhouse effect
C) reacting exothermally with water vapor in the atmosphere
D) being radioactive

Question 17

Which is an example of an anthropogenic contribution to carbon dioxide production?

A) volcanoes
B) burning of fossil fuels
C) forest fires
D) decaying plant and animal material

Question 18

Which molecule will absorb infrared radiation?

A) oxygen
B) methane
C) nitrogen
D) argon

Question 19

What is the problem with increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

A) its lack of consumption in respiration
B) a rise in pH of ocean water
C) too much UV radiation being absorbed
D) global warming