Identify the greenhouse gases that make the greenhouse effect possible. check all that apply.

water vapor

nitrogen

carbon dioxide

methane

nitrous oxide

The right answer is water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxyde and methane.

Two-thirds of the energy from the sun is absorbed by the atmosphere, the soil and the ocean. The remaining third is directly reflected back to space by clouds, aerosols, the atmosphere and the earth's surface. Atmosphere and terrestrial surface in turn emit infrared radiation that clouds and greenhouse gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane for the most important) absorb and re-emit largely to the ground. Greenhouse gases have the particularity of being virtually transparent to solar radiation and opaque to infrared radiation emitted by the earth. The energy is trapped. This phenomenon has been dubbed "greenhouse effect" by analogy with the gardener's greenhouse. It is estimated that without this greenhouse effect of the atmosphere, the average temperature at the surface of the earth would be at most -19 ° C instead of the 15 ° C that we know.

N2O nitrous oxide, the third largest greenhouse gas in the world is little known. Its emissions play an important role in global warming, but also in the degradation of the ozone layer.

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