The Greenhouse Effect Trivia Quiz

Answer: Winter

Yes, they're meant for providing a warm space for plants in general to grow when it's too cold for them outside, like in winter. They're designed to draw light from the sun inside and keep heat energy in.

Answer: False

I don't remember anyone ever using mesh for it! No, rather they use glass or plastic. Not necessarily green, mind you. They're called greenhouses because they help plants grow, and the stereotypical plant is green.

Answer: False

The properties of the atmosphere (water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, etc.) all contribute to the greenhouse effect, so there's more than just one gas causing it.

Answer: Below 0 degrees Celsius.

This is because we need the greenhouse gases to trap the heat inside to keep us warm, just like a normal greenhouse keeps traps heat inside to keep plants warm. The major greenhouse gases are water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane (as mentioned earlier in this quiz).

Answer: They all do.

Here's the logic. First, evaporation. When water evaporates, it goes from a liquid to a gas, namely water vapour, which is one of the greenhouse gases. Next is deforestation. When a tree is cut down and burned (the process of deforestation), it becomes carbon dioxide, also a greenhouse gas.

Not to mention that when a tree is taken down, there are less trees to suck up the carbon dioxide, meaning there's more of the gas in the air. Finally, is the "opening a can filled with nitrous oxide into the atmosphere" option. Nitrous oxide is also a greenhouse gas. So, even though the scenario seems awkward, that would indeed promote the greenhouse effect, just like the other two.

Answer: Infrared rays

When sunrays reach the Earth, the Earth's surface is warmed up and gives off its own rays, this time in the form of heat energy. The infrared rays escape into space, but some of them are reflected back to Earth by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Answer: Global warming

Antarctica has had chunks of ice break off it before. Some scientists think global warming has caused this. So, now you know what it does, and can do, try to make sure there are enough trees to suck up all that extra carbon dioxide, and stop running through the gardens at school, kids!

Answer: Troposphere

This troposphere, which is about ten kilometres thick, also contains oxygen for us to breathe in addition to the greenhouse gases.

Answer: True

In a nutshell...
Greenhouse effect: Several gases trapping heat inside the Earth.
Ozone depletion: Gases rising to the ozone layer and damaging it, causing holes.
So, they're not the same.

Answer: Carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide is a gas that can REALLY mess up your lungs that you find coming out of a car's exhaust pipe and is also in cigarettes. From what I can see, it's pretty much all bad, but it doesn't act as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Carbon monoxide can also turn into plain old carbon dioxide if it attaches to another oxygen atom, which it tends to do as quickly as possible.

This is because carbon monoxide is one part carbon and one part oxygen (CO), while carbon dioxide is one part carbon and two parts oxygen (CO2).